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From: flash@lopez.UUCP (Gary Bourgois)
Newsgroups: news.misc,news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Official Legal Announcement regarding Apple's Source Code
Message-ID: <653@lopez.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jun 89 00:45:05 GMT
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Organization: GWN UPLink, Marquette, MI
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> 	I agreed. But in my perosnal view, who would clone a MAC ?
> 	To me it sees to be just a toy for kids to play with or a
> 	fancy typing machine for people would like that "mouse" and those
> 	stupid sounds... and stuff...
> 
Well, I personaly do not own a Mac, nor have any intentions of using them,
but for graphics applications, they got the jump on a lot of folks...

The Mac is a right-brain kind of machine.  It is visual and not verbal.
Those of us who are verbal prefer the clean "command line" entry of UNIX,
MS/DOS and OS/2 (et al).  I personally think that using a mouse to
manipulate files is a very stupid way to do things, when I can type a
command (or write a batch file if the command is longer, and I use it
often) so that a few keystrokes whacked out in a split second get the
machine to do my bidding.  

BUT you see a lot of Macs in places like Newspapers (The Christian Science
Monitor LOVES THEM) Magazines, small publishing houses, etc.

Matter of taste.  I think the Mac is terribly overpriced for what it is. A
Mac Clone could wake them up, the way Big Blue got a rude awakening when
the IBM Clones hit.  IBM clones helped everyone.  Brought us a standard for
one...  Got IBM to improve their product line faster (Something APPLE USERS
would WELCOME, I surmise) .. and brought MUCH LOWER PRICES to the world of
desktop computing.

I am like someone else on here.  I discourage my clients from buying
anything other than INTEL based machines (If and when I can).  Now if there
were some reasonably priced Mac Clones out there, I might at least LOOK at
them.  Never own one though.

After all I am the one that coined the phrase:  MAC STINK.

                     
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