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From: dave@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Dave Hayes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Open Letter to an MS-DOS User
Message-ID: <1991Mar27.200613.4423@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: 27 Mar 91 20:06:13 GMT
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derosa@motcid.UUCP (John DeRosa) writes:

>I finally did the right thing and bought a different computer.

How much did it cost you, anyway? Bet my MSDOS machine is cheaper! 8)

>MicroSoft Windows is heading that way....but only if you
>have the updated programs....and the latest system...now
>that will mean how much money?....where do these files need
>to be?.....what was the name of that path?....christ, I
>misspelled it again...oh, and about the config.sys...or was
>it the exec.bat....or win.ini....hell, never mind......you need 
>to have a degree in CS to get a handle on this thing.....
>need a bigger hard drive....what type of controller is it?
>.....must partition it.....3-1/2", shit I need 5-1/4"...
>..THIS is the computer for the masses?.....rm *.*..
>....damn.....the file name is docsub12.txt....what was
>in that again?......8 characters only file names are
>a "pain in the butt"....

If you were having these kinds of troubles, it's good that you bought
a different machine! These machines are not for the computer incompetant.
(Who else would type rm *.* on a DOS machine?)

>Can you guess the name of my computer system?  

Gee..I could if you tell me how much slower it runs, how much
more you have to pay for disk storage, and how difficult it is
to get things like a MIDI port and/or modems installed for it.

Then I could guess.

>Remember that you are a computer professional, don't go off 
>and start flaming, treat this as a professional discussion.

Just as you did, no doubt.

-- 
Dave Hayes -  dave@elxr.jpl.nasa.gov - ames!elroy!dxh

You need not wonder whether you should have a reliable person as a friend. 
An unreliable person is nobody's friend.