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lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl) wrote:

> Patrick O'Neil <patrick@howard.genetics.utah.edu> writes:

[ About what sorta games are interesting for the masses ]

> > You and the few like you are NOT the mass of computer users.

> Can I have a quarter for every time this statement is widely
> cross-posted to Usenet?

It's worse than just some newsgroups on Usenet.  My employer offers (via a 
tax break) to pay Dfl 1500 for a computer we buy before 1st of January 1999.  
Guess what:  MS stuff, Word, Encarta (would you buy a used encyclopedia from 
this man ?) and ... games (surround sound, etc.)  Of course, the real reason 
you are supposed to buy these systems is "for work at home" :-) :-)

And now the catch:  You'd suppose that, given that my employer is the Dutch 
Meteorological Institute, where about 25 % of the people employed are 
researchers who use nothing but Unix, Fortran and LaTeX, would be able to buy 
those systems with a Unix clone installed (Linux, one of the Free BSD's).

Yeah, right: "This is the system we have configured for you".

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