"Real Computers" (was Re: Trivia Question)

PeeCee user to C64/Atari/etc. user: why don't you use a real computer? (real) Graphics workstation (e.g. Sun) user to PeeCee user: why don't you use a real computer? Minicomputer user to (real) graphics workstation user: Why don't you use a real computer? Bigger micomputer user to smaller minicomputer user: Why don't you use a real computer? (modern) Mainframe user to minicomputer user: Why don't you use a real computer? User of a computer with valves/tubes to modern mainframe user: Why don't you use a real computer? etc... It's all relative, or so it appears... however, there is one thing that perhaps most of us can agree on when it comes to defining what a "real" computer is or isn't: surely we all know that a "real" computer is not some random PeeCee (or larger server wannabee, which is still probably a Wintel PeeCee deep down inside) running some random Micro$oft operating system. -- Copyright (C) 2002 R. D. Davis The difference between humans & other animals: All Rights Reserved an unnatural belief that we're above Nature & rdd(a)rddavis.org 410-744-4900 her other creatures, using dogma to justify such http://www.rddavis.org beliefs and to justify much human cruelty.