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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$db7@news.service.uci.edu>
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In article <4mr5hk$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?

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