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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!goliath.apana.org.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!news.cais.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!nntp.earthlink.net!max3-vgd-ca-47.earthlink.net!user From: bluegoose@earthlink.net (RBA) 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 07:49:06 -0700 Organization: Earthlink Network, Inc. Lines: 56 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <bluegoose-0805960749060001@max3-vgd-ca-47.earthlink.net> References: <---0405961742330001@dyna-37.net7b.io.org> <david-0705960551500001@ts1dl40.escape.ca> <318F5C58.4BBF@rss.dl.nec.com> <4mo939$h3@dfw-ixnews1.ix.netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: max3-vgd-ca-47.earthlink.net X-Newsreader: Yet Another NewsWatcher 2.1.5 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.binaries.warez.mac:4188 alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc:38861 comp.os.linux.advocacy:48635 comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy:127563 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:24164 comp.os.msdos.misc:55053 comp.os.os2.advocacy:200512 comp.sys.acorn.advocacy:8920 comp.sys.mac.advocacy:105045 comp.sys.next.advocacy:35184 comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy:3363 comp.unix.advocacy:20306 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:19012 comp.unix.bsd.misc:950 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3539 comp.unix.machten:2461 comp.unix.pc-clo ne.16bit:803 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:9336 comp.unix.shell:32601 comp.unix.solaris:68307 comp.unix.user-friendly:3734 In article <4mo939$h3@dfw-ixnews1.ix.netcom.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 > >> 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 > > 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 So most of the beautiful automobile marques of the past are gone as well. Now we're stuck with the stamped out econoboxes of today. And also for the thought, I've worked Macs for 14 years and can honestly say that the only crashes have been the ones 'I've' caused, not the Mac. Has i matured in experience less are the crashes.(2 years to date) Too bad peecees don't have recalls like Ford "Just hate fork holes in my weiner!"