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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: The GS Axe is Not Falling
Message-ID: <15911@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 20 Apr 91 20:24:12 GMT
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In article <1991Apr18.171854.13367@nntp-server.caltech.edu> toddpw@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel) writes:
>Harry, you're thinking like an MBA. Computers can do more than suckle from
>hard disks if people would get smart and put REAL utilities in ROM.

When any of our computers goes down, people cannot reasonably be expected to
make use of the machine in a "standalone ROM monitor mode" while waiting for
the field service engineer to arrive.  Even if it reverted to an IBM PC level
of functionality, that would not help.