Return to BSD News archive
Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!usenet.etri.re.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!usenet.seri.re.kr!news.cais.net!news.supernet.net!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: Wed, 08 May 1996 09:51:02 -0500 Organization: NEC America Lines: 91 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <3190B4D6.63E7@rss.dl.nec.com> References: <---0405961742330001@dyna-37.net7b.io.org> <david-0705960551500001@ts1dl40.escape.ca> <318F5C58.4BBF@rss.dl.nec.com> <4mo939$h3@dfw-ixnews1.ix.netcom.com> <Dr2uMH.Ip3@solair1.inter.NL.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: viking.rss.dl.nec.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; SunOS 5.3 sun4m) To: Marcel Tempelman <Marcelt@grafix.xs4all.nl> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.binaries.warez.mac:4139 alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc:38623 comp.os.linux.advocacy:48521 comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy:127449 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:24097 comp.os.msdos.misc:54998 comp.os.os2.advocacy:200294 comp.sys.acorn.advocacy:8899 comp.sys.mac.advocacy:104878 comp.sys.next.advocacy:35162 comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy:3331 comp.unix.advocacy:20275 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:18973 comp.unix.bsd.misc:939 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3530 comp.unix.machten:2452 comp.unix.pc-clo ne.16bit:798 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:9331 comp.unix.shell:32547 comp.unix.solaris:68192 comp.unix.user-friendly:3725 Marcel Tempelman wrote: > > In article <4mo939$h3@dfw-ixnews1.ix.netcom.com>, > Hellraiser@someone.com wrote: > >On Tue, 07 May 1996 09:21:12 -0500, Michael Teter > ><teter@rss.dl.nec.com> wrote: > > > >>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 > > > >How can you say MACs are better.. MAC OS doesn't even have preemptive > >multitasking!! Get Windows 95.. It has preemptive multitasking for > >32-bit apps and co-operative multitasking for 16-bit apps... and MACs > >don't have nearly as much software as PCs do..Maybe that's why 99% of > >businesses use PCs and not MACs.. It doesn't matter.. Apple will be > >out of busineess by 1997...Get a real computer > > It depends what you call better. If better means more software than the PC is > better but is you talk about easy configuration than anything is better than a > PC. I've worked several years with PC's and I have an Amiga for years and a > Mac for about a year and a halve. PC may have Plug and play since a couple of > years. Amiga's and Macs have autoconfigurating busses since their first > appearance (in 1985/1984). It's FIT AND FORGET, not PLUG and PRAY. > > I really like the preemptive multitasking of my Amiga. On a 68030/25 Mhz I can > do more at the same time than a pentium with Win95. I must say I miss decent > multitasking on the Mac so I have to wait for Copland. > > The only real computer for you is the computer you like working with. > > Bye, > > /\/\arcel Internet : MarcelT@Grafix.xs4all.nl > ==== Fidonet : 2:286/407.58 > || empelman my name appears in marcel's text, but none of the text is mine. please be more careful in the future when quoting text. thanks. -- Michael D. Teter | Structured Software Services Group, Inc./NEC America teter@rss.dl.nec.com teter@gte.net "There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum." Arthur C. Clarke !