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From: tmonroe@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (Anthony Monroe)
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Subject: Re: The PC Mac Holy war
Date: 8 May 1996 12:18:44 -0700
Organization: Computer Science Undergraduate Association, UC Berkeley
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In article <4mo939$h3@dfw-ixnews1.ix.netcom.com>,  <*> wrote:
>
>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

I don't object to you cross-posting this here, but I do object to what
you are posting: an ad for WinBlows 95 to a unix newsgroup.  

I know many operating systems that have much better crash protection for 
programs than Win95, and the best thing is that the monetary price is
ZERO.  Unless, of course, you want to buy the distributions, but hey,
if I want to melt my modem in the download process, that's my prerogative. :)

Heck, even the operating system simulator that I'm programming in one of my
classes has better crash protection.  And it's still most definitely broken.

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