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From: neal@mnopltd.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: All those windows, all that hitech (was POSIX bashing)
Message-ID: <206@mnopltd.UUCP>
Date: 24 Apr 91 13:46:28 GMT
Reply-To: gatech!stiatl!mnopltd!neal
Organization: MNOP Ltd., Atlanta, Ga.
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->As much as I like the windowed environments available to me at work,
->(Sunview, Xwindows), I almost never use them.  Why?  I don't like the idea
->of sitting two feet in front of a 25" monitor.  After the machine is set
->up and if I'm not using the floppies/tape drives, I retreat back to my office
->and access the beast from my friendly PC via the serial port.  I'm not sure
->which bothers me more from the large monitors -- the high-frequency sound
->(which I can hear and directly feel) or the electromagnetic fields (which I
->can't, but are getting more and more famous as each new "Currents of Death"
->book comes out).
->-- 
->Ed Ravin            | This random number tells the computer that you are 
->cmcl2!panix!eravin  | a member in good standing.  It is not related to your
->philabs!trintex!elr | membership number.   --- Sierra Club
->

And perhaps you spent too much of your childhood with your mother yelling, 
"Son, yer gonna go blind if you don't get back from that darn TV" as I did.

And perhaps momma knew best.......

Yup, give me a nice sharp EGA screen in text mode and multi-screen any day...


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