Gene Kearns wrote:
On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:28:28 -0800, Calif Bill penned the following
well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

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|"BAR" wrote in message
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| Gene Kearns wrote:
| On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 08:28:51 -0500, John H. penned the following well
| considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:
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| |When I first started teaching, we had Macs everywhere. I think they were
| |being given to the schools in the hopes the kids would get hooked.
| |Eventually the county in which I teach got the word and went with Dells,
| |for the most part. Now it's hard to find a Mac in the school.
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| Yeah, great half-marketing strategy. Apple gave the schools tons of
| computers.... and they were used and appreciated.
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| It didn't work because Apple did a poor job of placing computers in
| the workplace. Employers didn't see any advantage in students trained
| on computers and an operating system they didn't use. So..... Dell is
| usually the low bid and school systems buy cheap. We
| have thousands of computers at my school and they are all Dell....
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| This is the converse of how UNIX took over software development.
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|No it isn't. Bell Labs used to deliver Unix to the schools for the VAX
|systems for $250 copy fee. $25k to a commercial customer. So lots of
|programmers coming out of school were used to Unix and C.
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And Pascal..... which came bundled with our Interactive Unix.... in
the late 70's and early 80's

Pascal, the crappiest language I ever had to deal with.