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Article #1356Re: GUI's versus TVs (was Re: SEF did it again)
From: Toon Moene
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 16:04
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 16:04
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In article <SCOTT.92Apr11141947@nic.gac.edu> scott@nic.gac.edu (Scott Hess) writes: > In article <FOX.92Apr11090050@graphics.nyu.edu> fox@cs.nyu.edu (David Fox) writes: > >In article <SCOTT.92Apr11024138@nic.gac.edu> scott@nic.gac.edu (Scott Hess) writes: > > > > <A GUI is to a command-line as a TV is to a book> > > > >Take this anti-NeXT propaganda to comp.editors.ed! :) OK guys, I'll admit I know nothing about US television, but I know for sure I won't pay the equivalent of $ 300 for buying a TV set and $ 50 for legally watching it (hey this is Holland :-). I have a NeXT; I can read newspapers - so what else do I need ? (You guessed it - a CD ROM with the Encyclopedia Brittanica). And don't try to sell me a car - physicists don't believe in these inefficient means of transport; bicycles have a 99 % kinematic energy conversion coefficient (Well, this is only just aside of this article's main line :-) -- Toon Moene (toon@moene.uucp) Kantershof 269, 1104 GN Amsterdam, The Netherlands Tel.: + 31 20 6982029; Fax: + 31 20 6003411 No Disclaimers; a NeXT at home protects against this occupational hazard.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!moene!moene.uucp From: toon@moene.uucp (Toon Moene) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: GUI's versus TVs (was Re: SEF did it again) Message-ID: <276@moene.UUCP> Date: 12 Apr 92 16:04:29 GMT References: <SCOTT.92Apr11141947@nic.gac.edu> Sender: toon@moene.UUCP Lines: 24