It was, I think, Umberto Eco who suggested somewhere that the Apple interface/ os
was catholic and MS-DOS protestant. Which would rime with medieval / enlightened. --
Pierre
Karlien van den Beukel wrote:
> ...A professor of literature who taught me some years ago refused to work
> with Apple computers because he did not like the icon system (medieval),
> preferring MS-DOS language code (enlightened). ..
>
> Yours in need of an operating system,
>
>
> Karlien
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