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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...
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> 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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| (...) 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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