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Re: KDE v. Gnome

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From: Russell L. Rader
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 00:00
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David Kastrup wrote:
> 
> Klaus Schilling <Klaus.Schilling@home.ivm.de> writes:
> 
> > I'll never write apps for a GUI desktop, be it called kde or w!"|"|
> > doesn't matter. Good old termcap- or ncurses interfaces are the
> > best.
> 
> Termcap and ncurses are evil.  Anybody that has accidentally started
> worms or robots or vi on a printing teletype can tell you that.
> 

Printing teletypes?  Yuck, too convenient and modern for my tastes. 
I'll stick with my good old computer system.  An abacus, two tin cans
and a string.

(Written using Netscape on KDE)
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From: "Russell L. Rader" <rlrader@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: KDE v. Gnome
Date: 1998/09/27
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