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Subject:Re: what do you call it when your computer stops? From:Herman Holtz <holtz -at- PALTECH -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 6 Sep 1995 15:32:25 UNDEFINED
>Perhaps it's the techie in me, but I never understood why some manuals
>talk about the keyboard locking up. The software is typically the part
>with bugs, not the keyboard.
That is the typical reaction of the non-technical user: He or she does not
usually grasp the difference between the symptom and the cause of a problem,
and so refers to the symptom as the problem.
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