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From: austin@gumby.cs.wisc.edu (Glenn Austin)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: The GNU Manifesto
Message-ID: <1309@gumby.cs.wisc.edu>
Date: 31 Jan 88 23:38:49 GMT
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Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept
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Summary: uh-uhh.,No Way, and all that stuff.

>> I work in an enviroment that is virtually overwhelmed with the presence
>> of IBM PCs.  fortunately, we do not have to rely upon them, as we also
>> have other machines.  It is my job to help people that come into my lab
>> use the machine of their choice with software and peripherals.  In terms
>> of comparative returns for money spent on hardware, and in terms of
>> efficeincy for the users of my lab, the IBM PC is a dismal failure.  
>  
> See Microsoft Word for good support  of HP and PostScript laser printers.
> See practically any word processing package you can name for support for
> proportionally spaced print.  Perhaps you are confusing the deficiencies
> of your printers with the PC.  You *are* confusing the deficiencies of the
> software that is in use at your site with a deficiency of the computer.

I do use MS Word, and it is certainly my first choice for the IBM PC, as it
works better than anything else.  Yet, if you take the logical next step,
and compare it with MS Word on the Macintosh, you will find that it falls
short.  As for handling proportionally spaced print, on a machine that can't
even display such print on the monitor, I'll beleive it when I see it.
      As far as I, and many other serious users are concerned, a 
deficiency with the software available for a machine IS a deficiency
of the machine!                                      --

				     Mr. X. the X-traordinary!

My employers could care less what I say, so it has nothing to do with them!