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Article #142Re: NT vs. UNIX
From: Christopher Ruckman
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 20:22
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 20:22
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In comp.windows.ms, ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes: >But I'll bet that most businesses still use far more PCs than >anything else. After all, why would anyone need a Sparc for >wordprocessing when Wordperfect 5.1 will run perfectly well on >a 286 PC? The 286 will cost a tenth of what the Sparc goes for >anyhow. It's only useful to have *hardware* capable of multi-tasking if you have *thinking skills* capable of multi-tasking. There are plenty of folks for whom using one program at a time is nearly overwhelming, let alone switching between several. Buy them a 486-50 with all the slick Windows app's you want, and they'll be so intimidated they'll go back to the typewriter.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!usc!sdd.hp.com!swrinde!mips!darwin.sura.net!dtix!oasys!ruckman From: ruckman@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Christopher Ruckman) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: NT vs. UNIX Message-ID: <22885@oasys.dt.navy.mil> Date: 28 Jul 92 20:22:54 GMT References: <CFC5GMB@mailgzrz.tu-berlin.de> <Bs3w3F.L3y@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Reply-To: ruckman@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Christopher Ruckman) Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD Lines: 13