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From: fiddler%concertina@Sun.COM (Steve Hix)
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Subject: Re: Xerox sues Apple!!!
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Date: 9 Jan 90 19:56:52 GMT
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In article <1990Jan8.202118.16386@ntvax.uucp>, jbeard@ntvax.uucp (Jeff Beardsley) writes:
> In article <5959@internal.Apple.COM> casseres@apple.com (David Casseres) writes:
> >I think we can end this whole pointless flame-war right here.  I merely 
> >point out that I, an Experiened User, am not able to do all the things I 
> >like to do, exactly the way I prefer to do them, on a PC/compatible.  That 
> >is total scientific PROOF that the PC, its compatibles, MS-DOS, CPM, OS/2, 
> >Windows, X-Windows, etc. etc. are ***TOTALLY USELESS AND A COMMUNIST PLOT 
> >TO RIP OFF EXPERIENCED USERS!!!!!!***
> 
> I agree that this is *proof* of something.  It is scientific proof that
> idiots who are too STUPID to be CAPABLE of using the PC are Able (barely)
> to use the Mac.

No, Jeff.  It's merely an indication that some people are sufficiently
numb that they can't feel their leg being pulled by both hands and a
small pickup truck.

Write when your leg begins to show some sensation again.  :}

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"...Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise
anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear
and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded..."

		Plato, _Phaedrus_ 275d