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From: avi@cyberspc.mb.ca (Avi)
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Subject: Re: FIVE GOOD REASONS WHY IBM'S ARE BETTER THAN MACS (only five?)
Date: 25 Apr 1996 02:40:58 GMT
Organization: The University of Manitoba
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In article <4la8jq$d9o@nntp.snfc21.pbi.net>, muy@muy.muy (MACS SUCK) wrote:

> >Allen Sim
> >allen@asiapac.net / allen@telekom.com.my
> >The Network Connections.
> 
> SomeOne wrote:
> My Pentium 100 mhz is way faster than any MAC
> Even faster those stupid prototype Macs that have 5000324 megs of ram
> and a billion megahertz.
> 
> Macs are supposed to be simple UNTIL you want to upgrade
> Like:
> add ram

I plugged in a 16 meg stick in... 30 seconds. Didn't need to talk to
anyone, and it was the FIRST time I had ever opened up the mac.

> speed up processor without buy a new computer

whatever...

> installing a modem

and likewise... plug in turn on.
> 
> 
> And most of all MACS cant run WINDOWS 95!! A far superior operating
> system!!! Since it was written in 95!!!  Mac/OS has been the same for
> a thousand years so it is outdated and slow!!

Troll...

You've never seen 7.5 have you?

...and into my kill file he goes...



-- Avi Selk


Historical Landmark #9678023

Windows 95: Five years ago, corporate software giant, Microsoft, spent millions of dollars, and put a team of hundreds of highly specialized programmers on an extensive and highly ambitious project to find another name for the Apple Menu.