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From: millevil@acsu.buffalo.edu (Andrew Milleville)
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Subject: Re: The PC Mac Holy war
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Hellraiser@someone.com wrote:
: >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.

Every computer does crash, but my mac hasn't crashed since I've gone
to 7.5.3.

: How can you say MACs are better.. MAC OS doesn't even have preemptive

Easy. Macs are better. See? it wasn't that hard. If you didn't have
your head stuck your ass, you'd be able to say it to.

: 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

Multitasking. Boy, that really makes an OS. Forget ease of use, *true*
plug and play, long filenames, stability, quality made computers, and
a host of other things pc users only dream about.
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| Andy Milleville          | UB School of Engineering         |
| millevil@eng.buffalo.edu | and/or Dept. of Computer Science |
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