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- In article <11406@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>, warwick@cs.uq.oz.au (Warwick Allison) writes:
- >How can we argue that the "typical user" doesn't use all the powerful
- >tools that "expert users" do... yet in the same breath say that these
- >"typical users" need to be able to pull boards in and out of their
- >machines, run config s/w, etc.
-
- An interesting question. From my experiences with members of MAST (the
- Minnesota Atari ST Users Group), there is a 70/30 mix of non-technical /
- technically-oriented users. The 30% who are technically oriented are,
- generally, programmers by profession. The 70% who are non-technical bought
- their ST because it did something they wanted a computer to do (graphics, MIDI,
- games ...)
-
- >I couldn't do it on a PCclone (no usable G++; no usable LaTeX;
-
- Actually, emTeX is quite usable by PC owners. I've done a few installations
- for faculty and former research assistants. It's limited, of course, to the
- DOS command line.
-
- -- David Paschall-Zimbel
-