On Sun, 07 Sep 2003 03:08:10 GMT, in <alt.privacy.spyware>, Surreal Killer
<not.here@all.now> wrote:
>
[snip]
>
> Matter of perspective, mayhaps? As evidenced in my other article, I
> was referencing the Alto, and I believe you refer to the Star.
[snip]

Yes, more-or-less. The discussion was focused on the antecedants of Windows
and the Mac -- which most directly would be the Star, even tho' the Alto
incorporated *some* of the same features (and was significantly marketed;
I'm not sure the Star ever was, probably because by then the cost issue was
too great a barrier).

> These
> youngsters just cannot bring themselves to believe there was anything
> before the Mac or PC. <g>
>
[snip]

It's as if the (broken) logic is, "If I don't know about it, it must not
exist" -- which is more than a bit egocentric, to say the least. But it's
not just "youngsters" (tho' obviously, youth is particularly prone to this
particular flavor of irrationality); I've seen 50-year-olds with advanced
cases of precisely the same mental myopia.

--

Jay T. Blocksom
--------------------------------
Appropriate Technology, Inc.
usenet01[at]appropriate-tech.net


"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759.

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