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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.consultix.com!newsstand.cit.cornell.edu!ub!acsu.buffalo.edu!millevil From: millevil@acsu.buffalo.edu (Andrew Milleville) Newsgroups: alt.binaries.warez.mac,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 Followup-To: alt.binaries.warez.mac,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 Date: 11 May 1996 16:04:54 GMT Organization: University at Buffalo Lines: 60 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4n2dr6$buh@azure.acsu.buffalo.edu> References: <---0405961742330001@dyna-37.net7b.io.org> <david-0705960551500001@ts1dl40.escape.ca> <318F5C58.4BBF@rss.dl.nec.com> <319207FD.6E13@magnet.at> <31937f69.6135734@news.alt.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: destiny.eng.buffalo.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.binaries.warez.mac:4486 comp.os.linux.advocacy:49037 comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy:127961 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:24408 comp.os.msdos.misc:55321 comp.os.os2.advocacy:201454 comp.sys.acorn.advocacy:8994 comp.sys.mac.advocacy:105680 comp.sys.next.advocacy:35284 comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy:3491 comp.unix.advocacy:20419 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:19232 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1017 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3595 comp.unix.machten:2504 comp.unix.pc-clone.16bit:846 comp.unix.pc-clone 32bit:9368 comp.unix.shell:32750 comp.unix.solaris:68631 comp.unix.user-friendly:3778 2-much-Nyquil (asleep@the.wheel) wrote: : Peter Kadlec <p.kadlec@magnet.at> wrote: : >Michael Teter wrote: : >> : >> 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. : > : >Thats absolutely true. But it matters how often your machine crashes and : ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ : >how much third party extensions its need for regulary crashes :o) . : ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ : Man, if that sentence made any sense you might get more responses. : "how much third party extensions its need for regulary crashes." : Whooooo! That's a mouthful of gibberish. An OS written for idiots, : will have users who ARE idiots. : I use a Mac at work and it crashes more often then my PC at home. The Then you've done something wrong. : Quadra just locks up for no reason, or shuts down. The one the AVID : is on locks up, and the one that ProTools is on shuts down. The only : answer is to save everything I do every minute or 2. Hey, that's a : computer I want to own! Gimme a break. Maybe if you actually gave the computer a chance, and tried to delete some of the extensions I'm sure you have loading, you might like it. But that would be too rational for a pc user. : <some OTHER guy wrote: : >>2) Win95 hasn't even been around for a year and it already has five : >>times the software of Mac. : <and ghansen@isc.sjsu.edu replied : >Only in the sense that it will still run 16-bit software. There's not a : >lot of 32-bit Win95 software out yet. At least not compared to Mac software. : WHAT?? Are you some kind of fucking idiot?? There's a ton of 32-bit : Win95 software out. The only things that I run on my computer that : are still 16-bit, are DOS games. DOOM, DUKE3D, DESCENT, and a ton of : other games that the mac can't hold a candle to anyway. Ever played Doom on the mac? didn't think so. How about marathon? didn't think so, either. : >The : >mac is the clear winner in this contest. : > : >ciao, peter : Uh, whatever Pete. -- +-------------------------------------------------------------+ | Andy Milleville | UB School of Engineering | | millevil@eng.buffalo.edu | and/or Dept. of Computer Science | +--------------------------+----------------------------------+