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- From: aland@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Alan D.)
- Subject: Re: * America On-Line vs. Prodigy vs. Genie...which one??
- Message-ID: <aland.713648165@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 19:36:05 GMT
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- smittie@beach.csulb.edu (Smittie) writes:
-
- >>What is this hangup people have about wanting to do things the hard way????
- >>If you like Compu$serve without Navigator you must just LOVE Unix and DOS!
-
- >A true AOL evangelist at work. Doncha just love it.
-
- Actually, yes. I'm a Mac evangalist in part, as well as a Unix and
- Telecommunications 'guru' for the Brandeis University Computer Science
- Department. I like AOL because it is easy to use; I dislike
- Compu$erve because I can't afford it... I can get most of the same
- information from either service, and pay less _despite_ AOL's GUI then
- I would via Compu$erve, due to the rate differences.
-
- AOL lets you do almost anything without having to memorize keywords.
- You can configure the software to do it. This software is the lowest
- common denominator. They can set the system up to do whatever they
- want, knowing it won't break anyone's terminal program. CI$ can't.
- They are limited to supporting TTY &/or VT100 for the most part,
- unless people spend an additional $10 - $80 for CIM or Navigator.
-
- -=Alan
-