Re: floppy eject buttons [was: What's a Real Computer?]

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From: Lawson English
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 1995 19:44

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Jim Williams (williams@tiac.net) wrote:
: medcalf@ppc5.svo.dfw.ibm.com (Jeff Medcalf (214) 280-5970 IBM SDO) wrote:
: >In article <3vcgqa$fko@panix.com>, bwu@panix.com (Bryan Wu) writes:
: >> 
: >> Sounds like Switzerland. :)
: >
: >Anyone who thinks Switzerland can't defend itself has never studied
: >geography, military science or history.  At least one of those has
: >to be missing to make such a statement.
: >

: You could probably throw in anthropology too.  I really need to go the the
: History books sometime and find out if Roma attacked the Swiss and failed,
: or if Ceasar had enough sense not to bother...


A little of both, I think. He tried and failed. He tried harder and still 
failed.

He looked at the situation and decided that it wasn't worth it.


(Make no mistake: had Caesar decided to take Switzerland, it *would* have 
fallen, but Rome wasn't interested in one single valley at the expense of 
a huge portion of its entire standing army world-wide -Switzerland would 
have fallen and then Caesar would have, several years early. Hitler made 
the same decision, as I recall...).


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