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- From: mathew@mantis.co.uk (mathew)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: MACS COST TOO MUCH (NOT!)
- Message-ID: <Z1DHqB10w165w@mantis.co.uk>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 15:54:10 GMT
- References: <ajross.715279978@husc10>
- Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.
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- ajross@husc10.harvard.edu (Andrew Ross) writes:
- > ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
- > >That's the whole problem. You *can't* use a PC without knowing
- > >a hell of a lot about the internals, just to keep it going. Of
- > >course I'm not a PC expert by your definition, which is "someone
- > >who uses, knows, and worships the Poltically Correct computer."
- >
- > Tell that to the millions of office assistants and others out there who
- > use PC's every day to do productive work.
-
- Yeah, but they're not the only people using those machines. There's the
- invisible army of support staff who set up all the software and fix it when
- it breaks. On my machine, Windows breaks about once a month, and after
- wasting a couple of hours trying to fix it I usually have to reinstall it
- from scratch. This, of course, requires editing of config.sys, autoexec.bat
- and *.ini files.
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-
- mathew
-
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