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Subject: Re: The PC Mac Holy war
Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 12:29:52 -0700
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Andrew Milleville wrote:
 
> : 2) Win95 hasn't even been around for a year and it already has five
> : times the software of Mac.
> 
> Show me an application (except a game) than you can get on a pc that I
> can't find the equilivalent of for mac.

Visual Basic.

Apple itself has said it needs something like this, so i went 
gangbusters after Denali as a cross-platform thing called Denali, now 
delayed.

And if you answer AppleScript and HyperCard, I'll pre-respond by saying 
they're not PowerMac native and not up to the task of filling this void.