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Re: PC's are democratic; Mac's are fascistic

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From: Chris Newbold
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1989 04:09
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In article <1989Dec18.191117.18483@hellgate.utah.edu> u-gclapp%ug.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Glenn Clapp) writes:
>That's the first bit of truth I've heard in all this babble, but it
>goes further than that.  It's not really an issue of what does what
>better than what, but what works for YOU, and what do YOU like. :-)

After starting this (almost) net-wide flame war by simply posting what I thought
was a rather interesting news article, and after admittadly doing my share of
flaming, this is the first bit of truth I've read.  It looks and sounds like a
great argument stopper, but it's the truth.

Back to the regularly scheduled flame war...

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From: ctne_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Chris Newbold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: PC's are democratic; Mac's are fascistic
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Date: 19 Dec 89 04:09:08 GMT
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