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From: wes@obie.UUCP (Barnacle Wes)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: The GNU Manifesto
Summary: RE: The IBM pit
Message-ID: <34@obie.UUCP>
Date: 6 Feb 88 02:25:10 GMT
References: <9591@tekecs.TEK.COM> <328@splut.UUCP> <3144@briar.Philips.Com> <1886@optilink.UUCP>
Organization: UinTech, Layton, UT
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In article <1886@optilink.UUCP>, cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:
> 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.

See Microsoft Word for the world's slowest WYSIWYG editor, because it
runs on the (woefully inadequate) IBM PC harward.  Also see Microsoft
Word on CGA or MDA for no WYSIWYG at all, making it nearly impossible
to use proportional fonts.

Perhaps your victim was confusing the deficiencies of his/her software
with the deficiencies of the IBM PC, but most of those deficiencies
are CAUSED by limitations of the IBM PC.  Now, for some more serious
discussion of the limitations of the PC:

This newsgroup seems to love to point to WP as a good example of why
the IBM PC succeeded in business, why it is a good machine for the
price, etc. ad nauseum.  The PC is a LOUSY word processor because the
IBM PC keyboard is a disgusting piece of garbage.  Have you ever been
in a room with 40 people typing on IBM PCs at the same time?  The
noise, as they say, is enough to raise the dead?  The physical act of
typing, pushing the keys, makes enough noise without having the
keyboard add to it!  The lab aides in the college computer lab where I
used to work would often throw students out of the lab for turning on
the keyclick on VT-100s.  You can't turn it off on the PC!  If you
want a good word processing computer, buy an Atari Mega ST.
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