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From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
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On Sat, 16 Aug 1997 andrew@ugh.net.au wrote:

> On Fri, 15 Aug 1997 dkelly@hiwaay.net wrote:
> 
> > > I somehow doubt that there are many Mac owners who are into UNIX ...
> > 
> > I've always said, "Gimme a Mac, or gimme Unix, keep the half-baked poor
> > excuse Microsoft boxes to yourself." Maybe I'm 3-sigma? 
> 
> Mac users are far more likely to use UNIX. After all they recognised one
> brilliant computer system...why not another? :-)

Further evidence lies in the job descriptions of computer support
staff around here: we have Windows support people, and we have
Mac/Unix support people.

-john