Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!unisoft!gethen!farren
From: farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: The GNU Manifesto
Message-ID: <610@gethen.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jan 88 12:21:52 GMT
References: <9591@tekecs.TEK.COM> <328@splut.UUCP> <3144@briar.Philips.Com> <1848@optilink.UUCP> <2228@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Reply-To: farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren)
Organization: There's Unix there in Oakland
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In article <2228@gryphon.CTS.COM> tsmith@gryphon.CTS.COM (Tim Smith) writes:
[on the IBM PC]
>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.

No, it's an idiosyncratic, cranky opinion.  Fact one:  there are, without
significant doubt, more people doing word processing, by far, on IBM PCs
or PC clones than any other system available.  Fact two:  there are more,
and better, word processing packages available for the PC than for any
other large-market computer system.  While there may well be better
systems available for some specialty machines, nothing matches the PC
for flexibility and price.  I've done word processing tasks on many
machines; for all-round flexibility, I'll take the PC over anything
else I've ever used.

P.S. - If anyone else ever made a keyboard as good as the PC's, I might
think about changing my mind.  Now THAT is an idiosyncratic opinion!

-- 
Michael J. Farren             | "INVESTIGATE your point of view, don't just 
{ucbvax, uunet, hoptoad}!     | dogmatize it!  Reflect on it and re-evaluate
        unisoft!gethen!farren | it.  You may want to change your mind someday."
gethen!farren@lll-winken.llnl.gov ----- Tom Reingold, from alt.flame