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Article #3451Re: BITFTP grief!
From: Lyndon Nerenberg
Date: Thu, 16 May 1991 23:27
Date: Thu, 16 May 1991 23:27
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jim@crom2.uucp (James P. H. Fuller) writes:
>There's a major difference between students who want games for their PCs
>and faculty members who want software for gene sequencing or amino acid
>analysis or Michaelis-Menten enzyme kinetics or numerical taxonomy or gas
>chromatography or carbon-14 dating of palaeolithic strata or photoelectric
>photometry of variable stars or.... I'll bet there are people at your own
>university who have used BITFTP to obtain software of the latter types.
>After all, you weren't always on the Internet.
Har dee har har har har har! It was the PhD's who wanted games for
their Amigas :-)
--
Lyndon Nerenberg VE6BBM / Computing Services / Athabasca University
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