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From: mi@rtfm.ziplink.net (Mikhail Teterin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.sys.sgi.misc
Subject: Re: no such thing as a "general user community"
Date: 2 Apr 1997 19:08:59 GMT
Organization: Aldan at Newton Upper Falls
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Honorable Lee Ward
wrote on 30 Mar (in article <333E3530.794B@sgi01.grn.aera.com>):
=What I'm really curious about is why you are using numbers from a
=machine that is almost surely overkill for someone's request about a
=news server? As well, why spend all this time and energy beating on an
=operating system and platform that you go out of your way to dismiss? If
=it's so easily demonstrated that these little PC's are inappropriate,
=why can't the rest of us see it? I'll buy that I'm a dweeb but the
=majority of the world is a little hard.
Well, the majority of the world (by the number of boxes, anyway)
seems to be using Micro$oft semi-OSes, so this argument is kind
of, mmm, poorly phrased...
-mi
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