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#! rnews 3802 bsd Newsgroups: 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 Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!news.cais.net!world1.bawave.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!openlink.one-o.com!rossix!joelga From: joelga@rossinc.com (Joel Garry) Subject: Re: The PC Mac Holy war Message-ID: <1996May9.201426.9894@rossinc.com> Organization: Ross Systems, Inc. References: <---0405961742330001@dyna-37.net7b.io.org> <david-0705960551500001@ts1dl40.escape.ca> <4mr5hk$db7@news.service.uci.edu> Distribution: inet Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 20:14:26 GMT Lines: 57 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:48752 comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy:127690 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:24237 comp.os.msdos.misc:55132 comp.os.os2.advocacy:200759 comp.sys.acorn.advocacy:8944 comp.sys.mac.advocacy:105249 comp.sys.next.advocacy:35213 comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy:3402 comp.unix.advocacy:20341 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:19054 comp.unix.bsd.misc:964 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3556 comp.unix.machten:2471 comp.unix.pc-clone.16bit:814 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:9344 comp.unix.shell:3 2645 comp.unix.solaris:68397 comp.unix.user-friendly:3745 In article <4mr5hk$db7@news.service.uci.edu> Douglas Lee Hendrix <hendrix> writes: >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. Not even Solaris? Hmmm... And what's this I read in the paper that Apple is recalling a million computers, but only when they lock up permanently at some unpredictable time? > >-- > _____ > / \ 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 >/_____/ \ > -- Joel Garry joelga@rossinc.com Compuserve 70661,1534 These are my opinions, not necessarily those of Ross Systems, Inc. <> <> %DCL-W-SOFTONEDGEDONTPUSH, Software On Edge - Don't Push. \ V / panic: ifree: freeing free inodes... O