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David Kaye (dk@removeme.wco.com) wrote:
> David Kaye wrote the quoted material below:
> " Copyright 1997                              The Macintosh is not a kind of
> " dk at wco.com                              apple; it's a kind of umbrella.
> 
> Lest anyone beat me to it, yes I know that the Macintosh is a raincoat,
> not an umbrella.  I neglected to edit the file before sending the post.

Correct about the raincoat, but you're still wrong about the other part
because a Macintosh *is* a kind of apple. It was created (yes, "created")
in Canada (Ontario) by a gentleman of Scottish descent, James (I think)
Macintosh. It was created in the 1800s by grafting two other types of
apple trees together. It is very hardy to our extreme climate, and very
tasty. Sorry I don't know about the biology or the history to give more
details, but a Web search could probably turn up something.

> -- 
> Copyright 1997                              The Bowling Green, Ohio museum
> dk at wco.com                                    features 3 human fingers.

Why?

Later in the thread, invalid@homo-sapiens.org (Brian Mueller) wrote:

>I cannot believe that Jobs allowed Microshit to buy part of Apple!!!!
>How could he DO that! Argh!!! 

It's called "survival". Better to have an Apple that is partly owned by
Microshaft than to have no Apple at all.

My apologies for perpetuating an off-topic thread, but I wanted to set the
record straight.

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