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Umberto Eco on Macintosh vs. DOS (cern.ch)
5 points by pmjoyce on Aug 20, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


> Macintosh is Catholic and DOS is Protestant.

So typical of Umberto Eco. A true genius of language. I feel lucky some of his more complex work was originally written in Italian - it's easier for me (native Italian, but living in the US since 2012) to read certain things in the original language, rather than in English.

I bet you would need to be quite literate to fully appreciate his works - if you read the translated English version.




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