From:	"Judson McClendon" <judmc123 AT mindspring DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.programming,rec.games.programmer,comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Do you want to learn C?
Date:	Tue, 28 Apr 1998 13:21:08 -0500
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Brandon Van Every wrote:
>Judson McClendon <judmc123 AT mindspring DOT com> wrote in article 
>>
>> Computers are sold to the general public at Sears and Wal-Mart.  If
>> they are appliances, then they should be as stable as appliances.
>> If not, they shouldn't be sold as such.
>
> They aren't sold as such.  The movement in industry is to try to get
> them to the point where they can be sold as such.


Are you kidding?  On what planet have you been living?  Which phrases in
any of the current ads on TV indicate that computers are anything BUT an
appliance?  You think the typical person who walks into Wal-Mart to pick
up a Packard-Bell computer doesn't think it's an appliance?!?
-- 
Judson McClendon          This is a faithful saying and worthy of all
Sun Valley Systems        acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the
judmc123 AT mindspring DOT com   world to save sinners  (1 Timothy 1:15)
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