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From: griffin@frith.egr.msu.edu (Danny Griffin)
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Subject: Re: When will new WordPerfect be available?
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Date: 10 May 91 04:27:40 GMT
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jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) writes:

>	Actually, there was a study 
>where students using Mac's tended to produce more-polished papers that
>were somewhat inferior on content to ones produced on other machines.  The
>assumption (far from proven) was that students on the macs spent more of their
>time "prettying" their papers, laying them out, selecting fonts, and less time
>reworking the wording or thinking about the contents.  There could be plenty
>of other explanations, and this was one smallish survey.

Oh, I thought it was because the people who use Macs were just boneheads.

>Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering.

  
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Dan Griffin
griffin@frith.egr.msu.edu