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From: blgardne@esunix.UUCP (Blaine Gardner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Lazy rats
Message-ID: <1055@esunix.UUCP>
Date: 5 Nov 88 22:05:56 GMT
References: <4835@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
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From article <4835@polya.Stanford.EDU>, by rokicki@polya.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki):
> 
> TurboBackup 2.0 is a very useful piece of software, and I wrote
> the `Software Brewery' a long letter thanking them and telling
> them features I'd like in a next release---it was this program
> that caused me to stop working on dfc.  It's too bad we won't
> see a new version . . .

Funny, I passed up TurboBackup for DFC. TurboBackup seemed nice enough,
but I dislike large, flashy programs that do small things. I much prefer
DFC's tiny little window to TurboBackup's huge one. A diskcopy is not
something terribly exciting, and I'd just as soon get it started, and
out of my way, so I can go on to other work.

Am I the only one that prefers function over flash? I'm tired of 8 and
16 color terminal programs, I just want something that works, and uses
as little of my precious Chip RAM as possible.

Anyway, back to shareware. The biggest problem I have with it is
remembering to do something about the nice stuff. It takes a while to
see if something is going to be useful enough to keep it around, or
worth the trouble of replacing the programs I'm used to. By the time
I've decided I can't live without it, I've come to take it for granted,
and sending off a thank you or a check slips my mind.

Nothing evil here, just human nature working.
-- 
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