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From: davidl@leonardo.intel.com (David D. Levine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Power users (was Re: What can't it do?)
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Date: 13 Jul 90 16:41:42 GMT
References: <1990Jul11.143622.2900@smsc.sony.com> <886@mdavcr.UUCP> <28778.269229da@vaxb.acs.unt.edu> <1990Jul8.220052.24143@spectrum.CMC.COM> <2977@tellab5.tellabs.com>
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> In article <1990Jul8.220052.24143@spectrum.CMC.COM>
lars@spectrum.CMC.COM (Lars Poulsen) writes:
> ... There's no such thing as a power user.  ...  Can anybody even define 
> what a power user is (as opposed to a powerless user?).

It's really quite simple.  A "Power User" is a user who's read the manual.
A user who's read the manual TWICE is a "Guru."  (I think this definition 
originally appeared in MacWeek in the "Devil's Desktop Publishing Dictionary.")

- David D. Levine, Intel IMSO Tech Pubs
  davidl@leonardo.intel.com
  If a picture is worth 1000 words, then a sculpture is worth 31622.7 words.