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Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???

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From: Nevin ":-]" Liber
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 1996 06:03
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In article <kevinbDMCn4n.BJL@netcom.com>, kevin@frobozz.sccsi.com (Kevin
Brown) wrote:

> One more thing: the user and the idiot who wrote the program are, more
> often than not, *not* the same thing.

Well, very little commercial software can get away with this kind of
crap.  I've run a lot of software over the years, and this just hasn't
been a problem.

> Do you *really* think the user
> (if not *all* users of the system!!)  *should* be at the complete
> mercy of *one* idiot user-level programmer?

I'm not.  I'll just throw that crappy app away, if, at some point in the
future, I actually encounter something like this.  I know that you are too
stubborn to believe me, but this problem just doesn't come up in the real
software that 99.99% of the Macintosh users use each and every day.  If
you have a real example (hopefully something more interesting the floppy
formatting with the Finder, since I can use Disk Charmer to get around
that limitation), please mention it.  Just quit making up this stupid
contrived stuff.
-- 
        Nevin ":-)" Liber       nevin@CS.Arizona.EDU    (520) 293-2799
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From: nevin@CS.Arizona.EDU (Nevin ":-]" Liber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1996 23:03:01 -0700
Organization: University of Arizona CS Department, Tucson "It's too dang hot!" Arizona
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