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- From: dlc@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Dennis Clark)
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 19:45:32 GMT
- Subject: Re: Re: MACS COST TOO MUCH (NOT!) - An Analogy
- Message-ID: <13140004@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
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- marcus@sun.pcl.ac.uk (Marcus Harvey) writes:
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- > In article <ewright.714941609@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
- > >In <92240.120751ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET> ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET writes:
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- [...]
-
- > >for a moment. Imagine a distant, far-off land where computers are
- > >more like cars than PCs. A land where you can turn on a computer
- > >and begin using it without ever opening a book. A land called...
- > >Macintosh.
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- I can imagine that... I have driven in Denver P^)
-
- > You really ought to think up a better analogy...
-
- (chuckle)
-
- Come on you guys, if the computer runs the software you want to use, at a
- speed that you find acceptable, its fine. Only a hacker cares about the
- internal specifics. What I would like to see is a data-interchange format
- that hides the origins of the data from the user. That would be the ideal
- in the networked information age.
-
- DLC
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