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)