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#! rnews 3375 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!garlic.com!fox.almaden.ibm.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!inet-nntp-gw-1.us.oracle.com!nntp-hub.barrnet.net!jpgate.inoc.sj.nec.com!vivaldi.inoc.dl.nec.com!cnad.dl.nec.com!rss.dl.nec.com!news From: Michael Teter <teter@rss.dl.nec.com> Newsgroups: alt.binaries.warez.mac,alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.acorn.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.machten,comp.unix.pc-clone.16bit,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.shell,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.user-friendly Subject: Re: The PC Mac Holy war Date: Tue, 07 May 1996 09:21:12 -0500 Organization: NEC America Lines: 47 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <318F5C58.4BBF@rss.dl.nec.com> References: <---0405961742330001@dyna-37.net7b.io.org> <david-0705960551500001@ts1dl40.escape.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: viking.rss.dl.nec.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; SunOS 5.3 sun4m) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.binaries.warez.mac:4091 alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc:38349 comp.os.linux.advocacy:48403 comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy:127312 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:24019 comp.os.msdos.misc:54943 comp.os.os2.advocacy:200053 comp.sys.acorn.advocacy:8888 comp.sys.mac.advocacy:104688 comp.sys.next.advocacy:35143 comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy:3301 comp.unix.advocacy:20240 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:18899 comp.unix.bsd.misc:932 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3524 comp.unix.machten:2445 comp.unix.pc-clo ne.16bit:792 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:9326 comp.unix.shell:32514 comp.unix.solaris:68097 comp.unix.user-friendly:3718 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) "There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum." Arthur C. Clarke damn the newsreader!