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From: alfter@nevada.edu (SCOTT ALFTER)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: The GS Axe is Not Falling
Message-ID: <1991Apr23.191811.22980@nevada.edu>
Date: 23 Apr 91 19:18:11 GMT
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In article <15941@smoke.brl.mil> gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>In article <1991Apr21.051415.894@nntp-server.caltech.edu> toddpw@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel) writes:
>-gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>->When any of our computers goes down, people cannot reasonably be expected to
>->make use of the machine in a "standalone ROM monitor mode"...
>-If no other free machines are availale, they CAN be reasonably expected to
>-make do with a built in terminal emulator, text editor...
>WRONG, and our computer users would find your claims ludicrous.

Geez, talk about spoiled!  What did they cut their teeth on?  Macs?
That's the mentality you ascribe to them--"damn, the HD failed; guess
we're gonna have to call it a day, huh?"  I find it hard to believe
that they'd be completely lost without all their normal whiz-bang
widgets; the attitude you describe is pathetic.

It's your tax dollars at work, people.

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