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From: bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield)
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Subject: Re: is news loosing the battle?
Keywords: blinders myopia
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Date: 7 Jul 88 13:39:50 GMT
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In article <10250002@hpfclp.SDE.HP.COM> diamant@hpfclp.SDE.HP.COM (John Diamant) writes:
>Non-rectangular windows is "gee whiz," but frankly, I don't care about that
>at all.  Other than having round clocks, I just don't see this as a big deal.

Isn't there some famous quote from a few years ago of Tom Watson
saying that all the world would only need about eight computers?

The amazing thing is, even with that tradition of foresight, his
company is still selling computers.  There may be a future for window
systems that don't support arbitrarily-shaped objects, after all.
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 Bob Sutterfield, Department of Computer and Information Science
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