16 Jun
2000
16 Jun
'00
6:31 a.m.
On June 16, William Donzelli wrote:
I'm not sure I'd agree...but then I work in a company full of Unix
boxes and live in a neighborhood full of Unix people. But that's
the reality I see when I look out the window. Microsoft isn't
universally run everywhere. Sure, every suit has a Windows box on
his or her desk...but just as there's more to the human race than
suits, there's more to the world of computing than Windows.
-Dave McGuire
Non-HTML
email is not exclusive to those of us who are into classic
computing. Non-HTML email isn't a "dying, quaint old way of doing
things" like some of the sold-on-Microsoft people seem to think.
Well...yes it is. I would venture to say that these days, more use it
than not. 
16 Jun
16 Jun
1:21 p.m.
I'm not sure I'd agree...but then I work in
a company full of Unix
boxes and live in a neighborhood full of Unix people. But that's
the reality I see when I look out the window. Microsoft isn't
universally run everywhere. Sure, every suit has a Windows box on
his or her desk...but just as there's more to the human race than
suits, there's more to the world of computing than Windows.
Yes, but something like 80 percent of computer users are Windoze types,
including John Q. Public. That's a big chunk.
William Donzelli
aw288(a)osfn.org
3:05 p.m.
On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, William Donzelli wrote:
Yes, but something like 80 percent of computer users
are Windoze types,
including John Q. Public. That's a big chunk.
True, but that's due mostly to ignorance and Microsoft's marketing
tactics which have resulted in a very limited choice for the average
consumer who buys a computer from the average computer store which
only sells PeeCees running Microsoft bletchware.
--
R. D. Davis
rdd(a)perqlogic.com
http://www.perqlogic.com/rdd
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