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From: dlw@hpsmtc1.HP.COM (David Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: Thanks for the flames!
Message-ID: <17280003@hpsmtc1.HP.COM>
Date: 14 Apr 88 16:49:19 GMT
References: <7937@apple.Apple.Com>
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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in:comp.unix.aux/earleh@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Earle R. Horton) writes:

>     There is another point which you are missing, however, and that is
>this:  UNIX systems are suppposed to be half-baked!  The whole idea
>behind a UNIX system is to provide employment for dweebs and twits, so
>that they can hack it into a semblance of something useful!  If it came
>completely baked, then there wouldn't be too much that dweebs and twits
>could do with it, and they would all be out of a job!  Think about it,
>would you like for Apple to appear so competent and professional in the
>production of their products that there would be no need to hire people
>to make them actually work?

Gee it looks like Earle read John Dvorak's column in the latest MacUser!

-David "Still unsure of which half-baked Un*x system to buy" Williams