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From: phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Computers for users not programmers
Message-ID: <1991Jan30.014945.22840@amd.com>
Date: 30 Jan 91 01:49:45 GMT
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In article <1991Jan29.150122.4454@lth.se> magnus@thep.lu.se (Magnus Olsson) writes:
|However, if you give 
|a 'typical user' the choice between a Mac and a Unix workstation, he/she will in
|all probability choose the Mac. If forced to use Unix, he/she will never learn
|more than the most common commands (ls, cat, rm, mv and the command to start the
|word processor) and then complain about that "you can't do anything on this 
|machine" (I've seen this happen).

You mean like vi and troff? I wish I knew what to say about people who
think they are good enough.

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