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to: Tom Walker
from: James Bradley
date: 2005-07-23 18:35:18
subject: BIOS question

TOM WALKER wrote to JAMES BRADLEY, "BIOS question" on 07-05-05 07:12

 JB> RJT> Gee,  that's almost as consfusing as,  oh,  "click
 JB> RJT> on the START button
 JB> RJT> shut down the machine..."    :-D

 JB>I tried to teach that to dad, and he just clammed up on me! 


 TW>  That one seemed VERY Logical to me. It means "START" an operation.
 TW>  you click on it and there are all the things you can do to choose
 TW>  from.
 TW>  And Shutdown is an Operation the computer has to perform isin't it??.

You've never tried to explain that to a farm-boy, have you? Came the
point, I just *had* to change "Start" to an expletive 'Starting'
and ending in the same letters. O-8*

He picked it 'up' pretty fast! 


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