Newsgroups: comp.arch
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Single user vs. shared (was Re:
Message-ID: <1990Mar21.175148.5186@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <52817@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> <76700181@p.cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 90 17:51:48 GMT

In article <76700181@p.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>(1) The price of a killer micro CPU is not much more than a decent
>    commercial electronic typewriter.  And most secretaries get their
>    own typewriter... gee, I wonder why?

Probably because typewriters don't need sysadmins, and therefore it is
cheap to buy one for each heavy user.  Computers are different.
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