Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site dartvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!harpo!decvax!dartvax!robertm From: robertm@dartvax.UUCP (Robert P. Munafo) Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: MacIntosh and the Emporor's clothes - (nf) Message-ID: <686@dartvax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 7-Feb-84 14:34:01 EST Article-I.D.: dartvax.686 Posted: Tue Feb 7 14:34:01 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 10-Feb-84 01:32:17 EST References: <5396@uiucdcs.UUCP> Organization: Dartmouth College Lines: 16 x I don't know about your univerity, but my university (Dartmouth) is *not* requiring students to buy Macintosh computers. Some of the employees are being required to *use* Macs, but aside from that they're not pushing it on us at all. The college will have college-owned Macs available for use to those students who do not buy their own. Some of the computer programming courses will involve programming Macs (in BASIC, probably). !uiuccsb!grunwald seems to be a computer user, and, like John Crane does not realize that the great majority of people who will be in the market for these things are not experienced in programming, operating systems, USENET, etc., like most of us are. This includes roughly 95% of the students at Dartmouth, and most of those students at other colleges involved in the Apple University Consortium. Robert P. Munafo ( ho hum . . . ) ...!{decvax,linus}!dartvax!robertm