[rollei_list] Re: Way OT: NeXT computers

Kieth,

"Elements of Style" was written in 1919. Writing style has
changed a bit since then.

Jerry

keith_w wrote:

> Frank Dernie wrote:
>
> > For web and word processing a 486 is fine. Run contemporary software
> > and don't upgrade to a more recent version of a Word Processor. These
> > have been padded out by the software vendor such that the customer
> > thinks he/she needs to upgrade their computer. That's how the  software
> > and hardware business have managed to ratchet up people into  using what
> > by any standards is a blazingly powerful computer just to  emulate a
> > typewriter.
> > Frank
>
> Aha I suspected so...
>
> I have a short book (72 pages) called, "The Mac is NOT a Typewriter."
> It's sub-titled "A style manual for creating professional-level type on
> your Macintosh."
> Filled with good stuff, for those professionals who just got a computer,
> and are going to use it for a decent word processor.
> It's a delightful book, by Peachpit Press, ©1990. ISBN 0-938151-31-2.
> I keep my copy right alongside my copy of Strunk & White's "The Elements
> of Style."  <g>
>
> keith whaley
>
> [...still waiting for his newly won Rollei to arrive in the mail...]
>
> > On 28 Nov, 2005, at 19:09, keith_w wrote:
> >
> >> Jerry Lehrer wrote:
> >>
> >>> Thor,
> >>> Pretty impressive jargon there!
> >>> My next computer will probably be my last, as I am still
> >>> using my first.  It is a IBM 486 (pre-Pentium) with 16 Mb
> >>> (or is it 64 Mb) of RAM.
> >>> Jerry
> >>
> >>
> >>  [...]
> >>
> >> What, pray tell, do you USE a computer for?
> >>
> >> keith whaley
>
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