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From: macduff@cbnewse.ATT.COM (Roger R. Espinosa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Xerox sues Apple!!!
Summary: Say what?
Message-ID: <12246@cbnewse.ATT.COM>
Date: 18 Dec 89 18:33:18 GMT
References: <6767@tank.uchicago.edu> <1989Dec17.112127.27333@me.toronto.edu> <7777@cbnewsm.ATT.COM>
Organization: The Rabbit Corps
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In article <7777@cbnewsm.ATT.COM>, wg@cbnewsm.ATT.COM (Bill Gieske) writes:
> 
> I have YET to meet an open-minded Apple owner.  Every one I've met seems 
> hell-bent on convincing me their piece of shit doesn't stink.  Great things
> need no defense - they stand on their own merits.


Huh?

Funny, I've yet to meet an open-minded MS-DOS user.  Or an open-minded
Apple // user.  Or an open-minded Amiga user.  Or an open-minded Macintosh
user.

Sorry, Bill, but my SE is exactly what I *want* in a computer.  The menus
on the screen aren't a bloody hand to hold (geez), anymore than you MS-DOS
people have those idiotic keyboard reference cards ("What?" Bill says, "*I*
don't use keyboard reference cards...").

Yeah, what I think "stinks" is having to go through elaborate installation
mechanisms to get new software on the machine.  "Stinks" is having different
graphics resolutions, none of which are compatible with the other (oh gee,
Bill, sorry that the Mac can do this...)  "Stinks" is when the software/
hardware combination doesn't *help* at all to bring technology down from 
the technical to a greater population.

I try to be open-minded.  But I can't stand when some people are "hell bent"
on telling me that my "piece of shit" is just a toy ... when most of the 
new software coming out for their "power machines" sure seems to resemble
the stuff that runs on mine...

Never mind. If you can't figure out that each computer has its strength
and there are very few "pieces of shit" out there (the only machine I'd
consider garbage is the TI 99/4A, and heck, *that* has devoted followers 
still), then ... it's hopeless.

Roger
rre@ihlpn.ATT.COm