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From: tabu6@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU (Adam Goldberg)
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Subject: Re: Open Letter to an MS-DOS User
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Date: 27 Mar 91 03:02:24 GMT
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In article <6078@crystal9.UUCP>, derosa@motcid.UUCP (John DeRosa) writes:
>Subject: Re: Windows 3.0 & ATM 1.0 problem
>Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.lang.postscript
>
>In comp.lang.postscript you write:
>
>>I just finished the installation of the ATM (I checked the atm.txt
>>file said it is 1.0 although it cam with the Times New Roman and Gill
>>Sans fonts) that came with Pagemaker 4.0 along with the ~100 fonts
>>from cica.cica.indiana.edu (pub/pc/win3/fonts). Boy was it a pain in
>>the butt to modify the win.ini file to support automatic downloading
>>of those additional fonts.
>
>I know that you don't want to hear this but.....you are obviously
>a talented computer professional that finds modification of the 
>init and configuration files in the MS-DOS world a "pain in the
>butt".  I was in your same place a year ago or so, forever fighting
>to get my MS-DOS machine to do what I wanted it to do.
>
>I finally did the right thing and bought a different computer.
>  
>  [complaits censored]
>
>.....damn.....the file name is docsub12.txt....what was
>in that again?......8 characters only file names are
>a "pain in the butt"....
>
>Can you guess the name of my computer system?  Remember 
>that you are a computer professional, don't go off 
>and start flaming, treat this as a professional discussion.
>-- 
>=       John DeRosa, Motorola, Inc, Cellular Infrastructure Group          =
>= e-mail:    ...uunet!motcid!derosaj, motcid!derosaj@uunet.uu.net          =
>= Applelink: N1111                                                         =
   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Therein lies the clue.

He's clearly got a Macintosh and is simply pleased as punch with himself.  I
don't know about others, but I'd rather not spend $10,000 to make John Scully
or whoever is in charge over at Apple rich.  I'd rather spend $2,000 on a nice
386 machine, splurge the $80 for windows and use the $8,000 to buy a car.

Besides, who wants to own a computer that wipes your butt for you, anyway?

Oops.  I flew off the handle.

Begin professional discussion:

I believe Macintoshes to be overpriced and though they are fine for some
people, I'd rather have the raw power of my IBM compatible that I can configure
any which way I want than be forced into doing things with (I can hardly bear
to type it) GUI.

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