[SunRescue] we're all just spoiled (was: re: IPC)

[DanielF.Dickinsonperrancan at yahoo.com]

My theory is that it's the attempt to make the beasts friendly to the
non-techie that adds on all the gunk.  I mean I'm perfectly happy work
in DOS (well as happy as one can get with DOS :) or sh but for a lot of
people that's rather daunting.  I mean a real programmer will probably
code using a keyboard even if speech recognition becomes the next big
thing because it would be faster than talking (I can type faster than I
talk although slower than I can think).

Bill Bradford wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 03:11:37PM -0500, Mike Hebel wrote:
> > Like many on this list
> > I'm sure, the people around me are amazed at what you can actually _do_ with
> > an "old" computer. *grin*
> > You just have to remember you're driving a VW Bug instead of a Jaguar. ;-)
> 
> One thing I used to notice back when I worked tech support at an ISP:
> 
> The people who NEED good computers (ISP techs, sysadmins, etc) have
> old crappy machines held together with duct tape & bailing wire and
> trips to Goodwill.
> 
> The people who DONT need good computers (doctors, lawyers, etc - the people
> who use their computers ONLY for stuff like email, wordperfect, lotus/
> excel, etc) have the 2Ghz 200Gig Athlons with the 24" monitors.
> 
> Anybody else ever notice this?
> 
> Bill
> 
> --
> Bill Bradford
> mrbill at mrbill.net
> Austin, TX
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