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Re: Open Letter to an MS-DOS User

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From: Elizabeth Fike
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1991 06:16
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In article <1991Mar27.030224.20622@news.iastate.edu> tabu6@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU writes:
>In article <6078@crystal9.UUCP>, derosa@motcid.UUCP (John DeRosa) writes:
>>Subject: Re: Windows 3.0 & ATM 1.0 problem
>>Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.lang.postscript
>>
>	[ramblin's of a MacWeeny deleted (oops, there i go..)]
>>Can you guess the name of my computer system?  Remember 
>>that you are a computer professional, don't go off 
>>and start flaming, treat this as a professional discussion.
>>-- 
>>=       John DeRosa, Motorola, Inc, Cellular Infrastructure Group          =
>>= e-mail:    ...uunet!motcid!derosaj, motcid!derosaj@uunet.uu.net          =
>>= Applelink: N1111                                                         =
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Therein lies the clue.
>
>He's clearly got a Macintosh and is simply pleased as punch with himself.  I
>don't know about others, but I'd rather not spend $10,000 to make John Scully
>or whoever is in charge over at Apple rich.  I'd rather spend $2,000 on a nice
>386 machine, splurge the $80 for windows and use the $8,000 to buy a car.
>
>Besides, who wants to own a computer that wipes your butt for you, anyway?
>
>Oops.  I flew off the handle.
>
>Begin professional discussion:
>
>I believe Macintoshes to be overpriced and though they are fine for some
>people, I'd rather have the raw power of my IBM compatible that I can configure
>any which way I want than be forced into doing things with (I can hardly bear
>to type it) GUI.
>
>+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
>+ Adam Goldberg                         Bitnet:   tabu6@ISUVAX.BITNET        +
>+ Iowa State University                 Internet: tabu6@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU    +
>+ H: (515) 233-5135
>+          "It's simple!  Even a Pascal programmer could do it!"             +
>+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Amen to that, Adam!  I've been fighting with my MacFriends about
this for a long time...but you forgot to mention beautiful
*full-color* graphics for a mere *fraction* of the
MacPrice....:-)

/betsey


	Follow men's eyes as they look to the skies
	The shifting shafts of shining weave the fabric of their dreams...
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From: betsey@cunixd.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth Fike)
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Subject: Re: Open Letter to an MS-DOS User
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