From: utzoo!decvax!duke!mcnc!rlgvax!guy
Newsgroups: net.micro
Title: Re: Re: DEC pro-350 (when a PC is not a PC ?)
Article-I.D.: rlgvax.1041
Posted: Mon Feb 14 10:20:03 1983
Received: Thu Feb 17 07:19:12 1983


The argument that a "personal computer" isn't "personal" unless you can
tweak it is equivalent to saying that one's "personal automobile" isn't
"personal" unless one can hot-rod it.  Most people who buy a car could
care less about changing the camshaft to give them performance more like
what they "really" want.  The same is true of computers; most people buy
one to get a job done, and most of them would prefer to get that job
done without having to learn how to tell it to do that job.  Working in
the UNIX-with-source-license environment gives one the impression that
*everyone* tweaks *every* program that they work with; this simply isn't
true, and is becoming a lot less true now that UNIX binary licenses are
becoming the norm.
					Guy Harris
					RLG Corporation
				(decvax!duke!mcnc!rlgvax!guy)