Re: Open Letter to an MS-DOS User

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From: Phil Ngai
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1991 17:10

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mcgredo@prism.cs.orst.edu (Don McGregor) writes:
>  The Mac come bundled with the System software, a mouse, and

And what a shitty mouse it is, too!

>  For all their "Windows-is-just-as-good-as-Mac" rhetoric, the 
>  PC folks are still being dragged kicking and screaming into
>  the GUI world. They grump about using it, call into doubt
>  the manhood/womanhood of anyone who does, and generally long

Actually, I think the Mac has some really neat features to it.
Some of it is magic to me. How does the system know where to
get the application to run when you select a data file? It
seems you can move applications around and the data files
can still be launched!

--
US Supreme Court: confessions extracted under torture are admissible.

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