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From: tsmith@gryphon.CTS.COM (Tim Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: The GNU Manifesto
Message-ID: <2228@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 21 Jan 88 05:29:32 GMT
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Reply-To: tsmith@gryphon.CTS.COM (Tim Smith)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <1848@optilink.UUCP> cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:
> [comments deleted]
>  ...there are definitely
>areas where the PC really shines -- word processing, for example.

I'm sure that there are many, many people who would vehemently disagree
with this claim. The IBM PC's problems are well-known, and mostly
reflect bad original
design. The PC was not state-of-the-art in 1981, and is far from it today.
Whether this was deliberate IBM policy, or just necessary cost-cutting,
is a topic
that has been debated for a long while, and I don't want to get into it now.

But suffice it to say the the keyboard, the display hardware, and the
WP software available are, to put it succinctly, miserable. This is not
an idiosyncratic, cranky opinion. It is one shared by many, many people who
have had to use this piece of sh*t to do word-processing.