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Re: New MOC: 8 Wide EMD SW1500
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Date: 
Fri, 28 Sep 2001 21:07:37 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Wayne Sardullo writes:
I think he only has a Mac (or did he get a PC recently??) and thus doesn't
know how to use a real computer, or programs (like MLCad) that only RUN on
real computers...

Thats a truely interesting angle Larry. I always thought that Mac's and PC's
weren't REAL computers but, toys for the folks who didn't know how to use real
systems like Unix/Linux  ;)

I'll see your UNIX and raise you S/390... (Can you program in 370/BAL)?

THAT'S a real computer. There are those that say if it didn't need chilled
water at some point in its lifecycle it's just an ersatz computer. Not that
I hold truck with that, mind you. I just come at it from the 'there's
computers, and there's computers "for the rest of us", that is, toys', angle...



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  Re: New MOC: 8 Wide EMD SW1500
 
(...) Thats a truely interesting angle Larry. I always thought that Mac's and PC's weren't REAL computers but, toys for the folks who didn't know how to use real systems like Unix/Linux ;) Wayne (23 years ago, 28-Sep-01, to lugnet.trains)

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