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Subject: Re: MacIntosh and the Emporor's clothes - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 9-Feb-84 22:42:40 EST
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uicsl!preece    Feb  9 09:54:00 1984

There's nothing wrong with memorizing commands, and one would expect
regular users to learn a lot of commands. On the other hand, I know
people who can't figure out how to use the tab key on a regular
typewriter.

I don't know about CMU, but at Dartmouth the vast majority of students
aren't engineers.  For the Dartmouth student the ability to write
papers on the machine, access the library catalog, and do a relatively
modest amount of programming (in, I suppose, True Basic) should suffice.
The Mac appears to be a rather nice package for that.  I wich they'd
open their discount package to alumni...

scott preece
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