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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Dell prepares to rebrand
Date: 16 Jan 2025 00:33:48 -0000
Organization: Former users of Netcom shell (1989-2000)
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Mike Spencer  <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> wrote:
>kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) writes:
>
>> It took years to figure out the old names.  Now I have to figure them all
>> out all over again?
>
>"Life-long learning" is supposed to be about learning *new* stuff,
>not about learning the same stuff over and over again, just with new
>names, new icons, new GUI features  for the old stuff.

Oh, I understand.  Management gets so upset when I refer to "cloud 
computing" as "that obsolete timesharing stuff."
--scott
-- 
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."