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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!imci3!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newshub.csu.net!csulb.edu!drivel.ics.uci.edu!news.service.uci.edu!usenet From: Douglas Lee Hendrix <hendrix> 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: 8 May 1996 22:00:20 GMT Organization: UC Irvine Lines: 42 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4mr5hk$db7@news.service.uci.edu> References: <---0405961742330001@dyna-37.net7b.io.org> <david-0705960551500001@ts1dl40.escape.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: sunspot.ps.uci.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.12IS (X11; I; IRIX 5.3 IP22) X-URL: news:david-0705960551500001@ts1dl40.escape.ca Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.binaries.warez.mac:4183 alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc:38852 comp.os.linux.advocacy:48627 comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy:127553 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:24160 comp.os.msdos.misc:55044 comp.os.os2.advocacy:200501 comp.sys.acorn.advocacy:8919 comp.sys.mac.advocacy:105031 comp.sys.next.advocacy:35183 comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy:3360 comp.unix.advocacy:20302 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:19009 comp.unix.bsd.misc:949 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3538 comp.unix.machten:2459 comp.unix.pc-clo ne.16bit:802 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:9335 comp.unix.shell:32600 comp.unix.solaris:68303 comp.unix.user-friendly:3733 david@escape.ca (David Brackman) wrote: >In article <---0405961742330001@dyna-37.net7b.io.org>, --@--.0101 (Dave) wrote: > >> I use both platforms of systems regularly, (IBM and Mac) and I must say >>that IBMs are ONLY good for games! And thats it, they are worthless >>otherwise... In fact, if there were more games available for Mac, IBM >>would be 100% worthless. >> >> I don't understand what's so good about IBM's anyway!? Whats so >>appealing about a dumbass OS? >> <snip> > >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. > Both of you are making the mistake of equating PC's with DOS/Windows. The PC runs a variety of operating systems. Besides the much maligned and generally flaky Microsoft offerrings there are Linux, Solaris, NeXTStep, OS/2, SCO UNIX, as well as others. By the way, much of what you both said is not correct. For example, UNIX does not have multithreading. -- _____ / \ Douglas Lee Hendrix (hendrix@sunspot.ps.uci.edu) | | Department of Physics and Astronomy ^^ (o)(o) University of California, Irvine C ,---_) | |,___| | \__/ Check out the Frontier home page /_____\ http://divot.ps.uci.edu/frontier.html /_____/ \