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From: Michael Teter <teter@rss.dl.nec.com>
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Subject: Re: The PC Mac Holy war
Date: Tue, 07 May 1996 09:21:12 -0500
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David Brackman wrote:
[snip]
> I have used the PC platform for about 4 years, and mac for 2.  Before I
> touched a mac, I thought the PC was the greatest.  After about 6 months of
> the mac, I changed my preference.
> For productivity, mac os is the clear winner.  For games, PC is the clear
> winner.  For a brute force technically better os, Unix is the winner, b/c
> it has all that great stuff like:  Preemptive multitasking, flat memory
> model, multiuser system, command line shell (for all you programmers),
> multithreading, multi-cpu, blah, blah.  Does a true end user need any of
> that crap?  Nope.  Just an easy mouse click and no crashes.  Macintosh.
> 
> Now, thats my 2 cents.
> 
> Dave.
> 
> ------------------------------+--------------------------------------
> David Brackman                | email:    david@escape.ca
> Linear Software               | Location: Winnipeg, MB  CANADA
> ------------------------------+--------------------------------------

begging your pardon, but what mac have you been using that doesn't
crash?  most computers crash at least occasionally.  mac is certainly
not excluded.

-- 
Michael D. Teter | Structured Software Services Group, Inc./NEC America
teter@rss.dl.nec.com
teter@gte.net
http://home1.gte.net/teter/index.htm (yeah well, haven't gotten around to it)

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