The following excerpts are from an English translation of Umberto Eco’s back-page column, “La bustina di Minerva,” in the Italian news weekly “Espresso,” September 30, 1994: "Insufficient consideration has been given to the new underground religious war which is modifying the modern world. It’s an old idea of mine, but I find that whenever I tell people about it they immediately agree with me." "​The fact is that the world is divided between users of the Macintosh computer and users of  MS-DOS compatible computers. I am firmly of the opinion that the Macintosh is Catholic and that DOS is Protestant... micro.bradeast.org