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Subject:Re: Mac or PC? From:Tim Altom <taltom -at- SIMPLYWRITTEN -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 14 Jul 1999 16:01:38 -0500
Andrew notes:
>The Atari 800 with the BASIC cartridge is the ultimate for tech writer.
Using
>anything else is stupid, wrong, and perverted. Only nazis, baby squishers,
and
>perverts use PCs. Only communists, satanists, and drug fiends use Macs.
>
>You need to get yourself an illogical emotional attachment to hardware
right
>away if you plan to survive the action-packed world of tech writing. Lying
>never hurts either.
I'd advocate moving completely out the playpen hardware and moving right
into a Silicon Graphics workstation, or at least something running hard-core
Unix. This will permit you to act superior when people prate about their toy
systems and let you roll your eyes at printers and other short-sighted
buffoons who don't know how to run a command-line starship of an OS.
Employers and clients will fall gibbering at your feet at this proof of your
technological expertise.
Tim Altom
Simply Written, Inc.
Featuring FrameMaker and the Clustar Method(TM)
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