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- From: zarthac@bradley.edu (Matt Simmons)
- Subject: Re: A1200 Complaints...Not enough manuals
- References: <Paula_Lieberman.07wg@amicol.UUCP>
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- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 10:40:16 GMT
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- Paula Lieberman (Paula_Lieberman@amicol.UUCP) wrote:
- : In a message dated Thu 15 Jan 93 22:40, Hamish.macdonald@bnr.ca (hamish Mac
- : wrote:
- : HM> Message-ID: <1993Jan14.192733.5246@bmerh85.bnr.ca>
- : >>>>> On Wed, 13 Jan 1993 12:25:50 GMT,
- : >>>>> In message <-192719999@hpopd.pwd.hp.com>,
- : >>>>> ag@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (andy garton) wrote:
- : HM> Commodore is getting rid of the CLI in AmigaDOS 4.0, and will use a
- : HM> Workbench-only interface.
- : HM> They are just getting you used to the idea.
- : <glyph of vomiting coyote -- no I don't know -who- came up with that line,
- : it -might- have been Judith Tarr, author of a number of fantasy books and
- : stories, and a few science fiction stories, then again, it might have been
- : someone else -- anyway, I picked up the term -- oops, it should be "<glyph
- : of barfing coyote>" from somewhere on GEnie's Science Fiction Round Table>
- : I -DESPISE- interfaces which are WIMP-only. To quote Norm Harmon, at a
- : conference (I wasn't there at the particular session) on a different topic,
- : "The fuckin' things DON'T WORK!"
- : Some people like them, some people don't. For me, the fuckin[' things
- : don't work that well. If my LIFE depended on it, I couldn't win at a
- : pinball game without doing something like using a Big Magnet. Otherwise,
- : "TILT"! PLEASE let those of use who are terminally coordination impaired
- : KEEP the quantitative aspects of shells, etc. etc.!
-
- Well, whomever started this "rumor" suckered in another idiot... Can we
- get a tally?
-
- --
- zarthac@cs1 \ / Macs are more bullet proof, because the /
- zarthac@camelot >.bradley.edu / authors have the leeway to assume total /AMIGA
- zarthac@buhub / / user idiocy. - Charles C. Bundy IV / ///
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- And I've seen Windows CRASH, too... nothing is bulletproof, you just /\\\///
- need a big enough bullet. - Frank R. Dana, Jr. / \XX/
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- This newsgroup is like a big cuddly never ending witch hunt. The / For the
- only problem is that instead of spears and flaming piles of wood, / creative
- we have soft cushy pillows. - Ian Kennedy (c.s.a.a) / mind.
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- There is also the fact that one generally wants to MAKE MONEY off products one
- develops, not give them away to twerpy prepubescent drips who wouldn't pay for
- software if it came out of the monitor and blew them. - Marc Wandschneider
-