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#! rnews 3412 bsd 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!news.cis.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!mccall.com!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!caen!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!torn!kone!news.ccs.queensu.ca!news Newsgroups: alt.binaries.warez.mac,alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc,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 Message-ID: <319B201B.133F@rmc.ca> From: Jay Gillam <gillam-j@rmc.ca> Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 08:31:23 -0400 References: <---0405961742330001@dyna-37.net7b.io.org> <david-0705960551500001@ts1dl40.escape.ca> <318F5C58.4BBF@rss.dl.nec.com> <4mo939$h3@dfw-ixnews1.ix.netcom.com> <4mr8um$qnb@azure.acsu.buffalo.edu> <4mti25$ooh@dfw-ixnews9.ix.netcom.com> <velvet.shark-1505961513060001@news.rmci.net> Distribution: inet Organization: UCAN NNTP-Posting-Host: dcsnt.rmc.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; HP-UX A.09.05 9000/720) Lines: 27 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.binaries.warez.mac:4784 alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc:42168 comp.os.linux.advocacy:49446 comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy:128498 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:24704 comp.os.msdos.misc:55682 comp.os.os2.advocacy:202637 comp.sys.acorn.advocacy:9035 comp.sys.mac.advocacy:106652 comp.sys.next.advocacy:35366 comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy:3621 comp.unix.advocacy:20494 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:19475 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1069 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3623 comp.unix.machten:2534 comp.unix.pc-cl one.16bit:902 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:9384 comp.unix.shell:32871 comp.unix.solaris:69088 comp.unix.user-friendly:3799 Chad Valentine wrote: > 1) Wrong. The OS has *EVERYTHING* to do with the computer. Without the OS, > the computer is just an expensive paperweight. > 2) Unlikely; but I'll credit you that one because I don't know. > 3) Wrong. In a recent study (from PC World, April issue I think) 2 out of > three people who tested all the major GUIs out there found MacOS easier to > use. It's not more powerful, either. They're both 32 bit. > 4) Wrong again. The Mac doesn't have true multi-tasking yet. But the only > way you can have TRUE multi-tasking without any loss of system performance > is to have multiple processors. > 5) 50+ million Mac users will keep Apple in business. Okay, I use whatever is available. Usually that is a PC - but like I said, that's what's available. Everyday I am surrounded by many highly educated people in the computer field. They all agree that Motorola uses a better overall architecture in their chips than Intel does. (Mac impliments Motorola I believe - correct me if I'm wrong). I think overall Mac is probably a more realiable system - today anyway. As for software, most of it is developed for both Mac and PC isn't it (ie two different version of the same thing). I use a PC (Intel) though - because that's what's available to me (ie. It does the job). -- Jay Gillam gillam-j@rmc.ca