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From: TMURPHY@WPI.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Futile Flames
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Date: 28 Apr 88 03:42:58 GMT
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I don't think my classmate Rick got the true spirit behind Ted Holding's
message.  True the message was a bit overzealous, but many of the comments
were true of the early Macs (joke of a keyboard, programming methods, tiny
screen, no alternate user interface).  But flaming the Mac wasn't the point.
Flaming Big Red (aka Apple Computer Co.) was.  Maybe the message was
'childish and immature', but I've heard many similiar comments directed at
PC's and other machines, mainly by Apple owners.  If nothing else, I think
those people (not all Apple owners by far) deserved a taste of what the rest
of us have been getting from them.

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Thomas C. Murphy         Worcester Polytechnic Institute
                          Electrical Engineering Dept.
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