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From: hhxxee@mixcom.COM (C. Richard Miller)
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Subject: Re: Operating Systems
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Date: 29 May 91 14:14:30 GMT
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es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:

>	If I thought the way you did about computers, I'd own
>nothing but clones. However, I like my computers smart, not
>brain-dead. For me, the OS is one of the number one reasons I own
>the machine.

Rey was talking from the perspective of a casual user, and he
was right.  From that perspective, it is the software that
runs on the computer that is important, not the nature of the
operating system itself.  


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Rick Miller                                         hhxxee@mixcom.com
Milwaukee, Wisconsin                          or hhxxee%mixcom@uunet.uu.net