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- From: cwilson@toast.wpd.sgi.com (Chan Wilson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: Re : FREE TinyUI NOW! (Please)
- Message-ID: <og8prn0@fido.asd.sgi.com>
- Date: 12 Aug 92 21:17:42 GMT
- References: <31758@adm.brl.mil>
- Sender: news@fido.asd.sgi.com (Usenet News Admin)
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
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- In article <31758@adm.brl.mil>, blbates@aero36.larc.nasa.gov writes:
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- > Can we please stop commaring SGI's fine machines to non-entities like
- > Apple/NeXT. What will really get SGI going, is to drop the prices and get
- > the machines into elementary and high schools. That is what Apple did,
- > and we are still trying to get this trash out of the schools. I know people
-
- Tisk. You're comparing Apples with Macintoshes. There are far more
- Apple //e's and Apple //gs's in the elementary and high school than there
- are Macintoshes, simply beacuse they are easier to use and cost less.
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- For the types of things that people use computers for in elementary and high
- school, Apple //s are fine. Macintoshes aren't, really, because it's a bit
- hard to teach the basics of programming on a Mac.
-
- For home use, most people don't know enough about the different types of
- computers to make a fully informed choice.
-
- > So SGI work harder to
- > get these machines into schools.
-
- You don't want to put existing SGI systems in a high school or elementary
- school environment. They're far, far, too complex and complicated for
- the benifits they give.
-
- --Chan
-