On Jul 25, 2008, at 5:28 PM, Paul McNett wrote:

>>      People used to say that about DOS.
>
> Which people? At the time DOS was heavily used, Unix would have been  
> the
> platform for geeks...

        Geeks were the ones who could write .BAT files and mess with stuff  
like QEMM. At the job I had in the early 90s, some non-geek people  
used Word Perfect, but it was the geeks who had to be called in to do  
any tweaking. Most non-tech positions didn't use computers.

-- Ed Leafe





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