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In article <SRO.92Nov9040421@media-lab.media.mit.edu>, sro@media.mit.edu
(Shawn O'Donnell) wrote:
> 
> I heard of a study a couple of years ago--at the University of Delaware,
> I think--according to which students who used (DOS) IBM PCs wrote better
> papers than students who used a Macintosh.  (The students using the Mac
> allegedly spent all their time fiddling with fonts and formatting instead
> of worrying about what they were saying.  Since it was so hard to do
> formatting on old DOS PCs, the students using the IBMs spent all their
> time thinking about the writing assignment.  Or so the story goes.)
> 
> Does anyone know of a reference for this study?  
> 
> And I know I read about it recently... I can't remember where, though.
> Maybe in a Boston Computer Society publication?  BCS Update?  In don't
> know.
> 
> Any pointers?

It wasn't a study.  It was the report of one teacher.  Nothing ever came of
it.

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