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- From: bcoleman@hayes.com (Bill Coleman)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: Macs cost too much (NOT!)
- Message-ID: <5826.2a742308@hayes.com>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 16:23:35 GMT
- References: <92203.173612ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET> <yL0aoB27w165w@mantis.co.uk> <1992Jul23.143042.14243@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> <ewright.711925511@convex.convex.com> <1992Jul24.131236.4307@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>
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- In article <1992Jul24.131236.4307@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>, smoon@strfleet.gsfc.nasa.gov (Sang J. Moon) writes:
- > In article <ewright.711925511@convex.convex.com>, ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
- >>
- >> You also snuck a lie in sideways. You talk about reinstalling the
- >> system and rebuilding the desktop together, as if these are both
- >> jobs of equivalent complexity. In fact, all you have to do to
- >> rebuild the desktop is to hold down a modifier key during startup.
- >> Pretty hard, isn't it?
- >
- > You have never rebuilt your desktop in system 7 so you don't know
- > what you are talking about. As far as I know, there is no modifier
- > key you can hold down in System 7 to rebuild the desktop.
-
- "To rebuild the desktop of a startup disk, hold down the Option and
- (Command icon) keys while starting up your computer. Keep holding down
- the keys until you see a message asking whether you want to rebuild the
- desktop"
-
- -- from System 7 Reference. Page 311.
-
- Sang, I don't think statements like the above really help your credibility.
- After all, rebuilding the desktop is even in the index of the doggone manual!
-
- Perhaps if you would bother to read the manual, you'd have less trouble using
- Macs.
-
- > No. My claim has always been that Macintosh cost too much, and I can get
- > (and have gotten) an equivalent PC based system to do the same work I do
- > on a mac at a significantly lower price.
-
- Fine. Go buy said system. Go use it. Stop reading comp.sys.mac.*. Be happy.
-
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