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From: gors@well.UUCP (Gordon Stewart)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Porting C News to MS-DOS?
Message-ID: <12940@well.UUCP>
Date: 31 Jul 89 15:46:53 GMT
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Reply-To: gors@well.UUCP (Gordon Stewart)
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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In article <1871@ucsd.EDU> brian@ucsd.edu (Brian Kantor) writes:
>Why would you WANT to port C news to your PC?  Wouldn't it be smarter
>and about as cost-effective to port your PC over to the trashcan and buy
>a real computer that runs a real operating system like Unix?
>

The above comments are seen too often on the net, and are never helpful.
The suggestion to throw away one's equipment to buy the latest and
greatest comes easily to some -- but the rest of us, for whatever reason
(desire for experience, lack of moola, fear of flying) want to use
our equipment at LEAST until we've depreciated it!

Maybe your parents are still supporting you, I dunno.  It is almost
invariably the case that when someone in computerdom says: "you should
junk that thing, because <blah> is coming out!" they're a student, with
resources that are paid for by someone else.  Outside the academy, we
have to PAY for our fun!  And it isn't always a question of labor vs.
money -- I could, I suppose afford a plumber -- but I'd rather fix the
drain under the sink myself. And I don't want to wait for the plumber
to arrive.

m sierchio
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