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From: dprrhb@inetg1.ARCO.COM (Reginald H. Beardsley)
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Subject: Re: Word-processing in Coherent
Message-ID: <1991May28.204721.6704@Arco.COM>
Date: 28 May 91 20:47:21 GMT
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In article <1991May27.163227.13727@eci386.uucp>, woods@eci386.uucp (Greg A.
Woods) writes:

> Ah, but the point I was trying to make is that such de-facto standards
> are irrelelvant.  Learning new tools should be a fun and desirable
> thing to do, and anyone worth their salt should be able to do such a
> switch without too much problem.  The only pre-requisite is an
> environment were such changes, and their inevitable but temporary,
> reduction in productivity is encouraged.

 I feel obliged to take issue with the comments above.  Having suffered
through
4 major operating systems, about 8 minor operating systems, and 8-9 Unix 
variants, all in 10 years, I just might commit a criminal act if I have to
go through this again!!! :-) 

  Seriously though, a lot depends on your point of few.  If you are
just playing with computers, change is fun and interesting.  On the other 
hand, if you have real work to do it is very painful.  In the worst case, 
you become like me, a scientist trapped in the tar pit and no longer doing
any science at all.

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