Re: Windows 95 testing halted at Motorola

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From: Dan Prener
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 07:45

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In article <40vt02$8c9@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> rsjohnso@ux5.cso.uiuc.edu (Richard Scot Johnson) writes:

> All these posts about users needing to know source code of their OS
> and having the sophistication of a Unix administrator is ridiculous.
> It's like a comment made by a friend of mine (a linux fanatic) who
> claimed that all artist should know the chemical composition and    
> properties of the paint they were using.  Otherwise they couldn't be
> considered "competent enough" to use their tools.  

But all the serious artists that I've ever met did know the chemical
composition and properties of the paints they used.
-- 
                                   Dan Prener (prener@watson.ibm.com)

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From: prener@watson.ibm.com (Dan Prener)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.terminals.tty5620,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600,alt.destroy.microsoft
Subject: Re: Windows 95 testing halted at Motorola
Date: 21 Aug 1995 07:45:47 GMT
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