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From: bediger@csn.net (Bruce Ediger)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: Betting on Unix
Date: 15 Mar 1997 20:57:04 -0700
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rkyoung@flash.net wrote:
>that you honestly would rather have provided voice telephone only tech
>support to my ex-mother in law, under Unix, rather than W95. She's not
>stupid, but she was a soc major. Even the most basic computer
>vocabulary, was a barrier.

All I can say is "Thank God my parents bought a Mac".  It took my dad
_weeks_ to understand drag-n-drop.  If they'd gotten Windows (at that
time 3.0, I think) they would have given up on the whole thing.  Windows
95 would have been an unholy terror, trying to explain that wacky file
naming, the bizarre seperation of "dircetory" and "file", _drive_letters_,
for crying out loud, it's Windows "95", not Windows "65".

Macintosh was heard enough for my old man to learn: he's not stupid, he's
got a doctorate.  After seeing him take so long to figure it out, I will
deny to my dying breath that "Mac is intuitive", and I will ridicule anyone
who claims Windows95 comes even close to Macintosh.