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From: torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie)
Subject: Re: computer buyers
Message-ID: <1991Jun6.043819.23323@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Sender: torrie@neon.Stanford.EDU (Evan James Torrie)
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University, Ca , USA
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Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1991 04:38:19 GMT
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bard@jessica.stanford.edu (David Hopper) writes:

>Yet I'll grant you that there are a lot of idiots out there.  Given
>that, and I mean this honestly, do they *deserve* to own an Amiga?  It's
>a sophisticated machine, with a sophisticated and complex OS.  

  Boy.  I thought we'd got rid of the "high priest" attitude in the
70's.  Why do you think we're not still programming in machine code?  
Because people saw past attitude like yours (that computers should be 
kept difficult and complex, so that the "plebs" couldn't use them), 
and instead created easier to use software to make computers
accessible to a wider audience.

  It's still possible to have a sophisticated and complex OS.  The trick
is making those features usable by as many people as possible.

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