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I can remember the time when I was more into hardware than software and used to use 286 PCs for CAD and the like. Entirely DOS based. We asked for a word processor or text editor and the sysadmin asked "What do engineers need an editor for? What's wrong with Edlin?"
Needless to say when we heard that one, we went and found some piece of freeware off the front of a magazine...
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Right on dude!
Fight the power!
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On the computer that he used for browsing he probably uses AOL?
Along with Antimatter and Dark Matter they've discovered the existence of Doesn't Matter which appears to have no effect on the universe whatsoever!
Rich Tennant 5th Wave
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I know people who think they need to go through AOL to browse the internet.
It is the only interface with which they are familiar. 
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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Aunty said "And he said that he hated spell-checking programmes because they were unlikely to recognise a lot of the words in a fantasy novel."
Or pick the write won...
Should that not be programs? (The former is television/radio broadcasts etc.) Reading all the usage and definitions would suggest it should be the later: http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/programme[^]
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Wordstar has (or had) a spellchecker available called Spellstar.
Most word processing software with built in spell/grammar checking allows you to switch it off, so this argument is spurious
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So an article about spill chicken didn't pick up the mistake. 
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It's certainly not the one you'd generally pick there. I'm not sure it's actually wrong. The difference comes from British vs American and the American version is usually used for computer software because so much of it came from there. It may be an intentional two fingers to that.
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What a pretentious oik.
He could just switch off the auto correct features.
I think it more likely he does it so he can say he does it.
I bet it annoys his publisher!
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Dalek Dave wrote: What a pretentious oOik.
I had to correct your capitalization. Remember, you must like my change to not be pretentious.
Jeremy Falcon
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Remember the WordStar key sequence to quit a document without saving?
It was Ctrl-K, Q, Y
Any other keys hit and the document would not be lost.
Reason I remember this so well?
My kitten walking across the keyboard has fixed it in my memory for all (my) time!
To this day, I still wonder if I hadn't shouted "Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo" would he have hit the 'Y' with that last paw? 
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That makes sense. There's a lof of fluff around, just to promote mediocrity.
Veni, vidi, vici.
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Good on him! 
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"Disk operating system computers were popular in the 1980s and early 1990s".
According to aunty, today's operating systems don't work with disks. 
/ravi
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A week or two ago my ex-wife was trying to impress me with the details of the new laptop her dad had just bought.
"Did you know they don't come with hard drives any more?" she asked - "they come with it all on a thumb drive"
I asked her if she meant operating system disc, but she insisted she was right - no hard drive.
She then said "It's got a 15" screen, an A10 processor, 4Gb of memory and a 1Tb hard drive"
I asked if it doesn't come with a hard drive, why has it got a 1Tb hard drive? She started to fluster then, and changed the subject!
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That is why she the the ex-wife, you didn't let her win all the discussions/arguments.
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The new subject involved your sleeping on the couch?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Why? I have my own bed!
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This is the BBC we are talking about, they have the WORST reporting on Science and Technology you will ever see.
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I guess it's still a step up from a typewriter.
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He makes a good point. Someone should introduce him to vim.
Jeremy Falcon
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ED for CP/M was one of my first!
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I came to personal computers just as the sandbag of apple 2 and dos had overtaken the idol of cp/m, so I never really got to noodle with it.
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