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From: freek@fwi.uva.nl (Freek Wiedijk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Changing Paradigms
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Date: 20 Dec 89 15:07:28 GMT
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In article <4125@puff.cs.wisc.edu> schaut@cat9.cs.wisc.edu (Richard
Schaut) writes:
>The current situation on both the Macs and the PCs is marked by the
>existence of monolithic/do-everythin-immaginable programs.

YES!  I don't think it is RIGHT that nowadays every draw-type program
tends to contain a complete (but inferior) word-processor, and that
every word-processor tends to contain a complete (but inferior) draw-
type program.
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Freek "the Pistol Major" Wiedijk                  Path: uunet!fwi.uva.nl!freek
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