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Article #14Re: FYI - USWest wasting our money again
From: Mark Evans
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 19:29
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 19:29
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elesatz@diana.cair.du.edu (Eric LeSatz) writes: >This kina sounds like the stupidity you see at many offices. They will >pay huge bucks for these "word processing networks". Brand names >nobody's heard of, not compatible with anything and the main program >runs on an IBM PC with someone elses name slapped on there. Try >WordStar or WordImperfect with a server. (and some 'Bog standard' ethernet/token ring networking) >As far as USWest's plans go, I'm sure they hired some idiot consultant >that has no REAL experience with _how_ people use computers. What they >should do is hire Andrew Burt and pay him a nice fat consulting fee to >show them how to set up their system and link it in with various >networks. Hmm..Wouldn't AT&T actually be a better company to work with >on a project like this? It sounds amazing that a telephone company can 'fluff up' networking, then again maybe not.
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