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From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger)
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Subject: Re: Let's make a stupid post (was: An interesting idea...
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Date: 3 May 91 15:34:51 GMT
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In article <3785@tpki.toppoint.de> kris@tpki.toppoint.de (Kristian Koehntopp) writes:

   melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes:
   >I guess you could have 'nice'ed the job after it started, but that is
   >a pain, and beyond the average user's abilities.

   Well, what a statement about the abilities of the average NeXT user.

Flame war, eh?  The idea is to make a computer easy enough for your
mother to use, and we know she ain't all that bright.

And those Forturne 500 types probably won't like to play Unix weenie
either.

-Mike