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Article #2005Re: The meaning of life, as it relates to hacking.
From: Snoopy
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1989 03:52
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1989 03:52
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In article <RANG.89Dec22001823@derby.cs.wisc.edu> rang@cs.wisc.edu (Anton Rang) writes:
| Actually, a good argument could be made that Microsoft has helped
| out the economy tremendously. The IBM PC, though it's not the most
| powerful computer in the world, has been quite a boon to businesses
| (the economy).
A bunch of money running around does not imply that something "good"
is happening. Wars do wonderous things for economies. Maybe we
should go start a war?
The IBM PC has done the computing industry a great disservice.
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