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From: Patrick Taylor <exuptr@exu.ericsson.com>
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Subject: Re: The PC Mac Holy war
Date: Wed, 08 May 1996 12:29:43 -0500
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David Brackman wrote:

> With macs, the os is elegant in the way it interfaces with the user, ie.
> *true* "plug n play".  Hell, we don't even call it "plug n play".  We just
> plug it in, and it plays!

i think they should sell them at McDonalds, they're soooo cool.

> 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.  

you're right, that sounds nothing like Windows NT.

exuptr