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From: ar4@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Piper Keairnes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac vs. PC -- Shut Up Already!
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Date: 13 Jan 90 15:18:11 GMT
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Reply-To: ar4@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Piper Keairnes)
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mithomas@bsu-cs.UUCP (Michael Thomas Niehaus) writes:
>Now, I would hope that people aren't so pig-headed that they think that you
>can use one and only one machine (although I have seen some people on the
>net that come close to this).  But it seems that Mac users are more likely
>to understand another Mac user using an IBM, but the opposite is not true.
>Why is this so?

Maybe it's just the good natured aspect of the entire Macintosh community?!
OK, maybe not.

I work with several types of computers. I live on a Macintosh and I
occasionally use an IBM-compatible. I prefer the environment of the Mac
to that of the IBM. I, personally, find Macs more powerful for my purposes.
Our public lab site here at Purdue might give people some insight to the
"Who uses what?" problem:

We have a lab with both Mac II's and Zenith 286's. As far as hardware is
concerned, the systems are comparable. When the lab is busy, the Macs are
generally full and there are a few users on the Zeniths. For the most part,
old users, familiar with the lab, tend to use one machine OR the other
BUT NOT BOTH. Newcomers come in to work on a Mac, find that they are full, and
ask if the Zeniths have the needed software for the job. Sometimes they will
grumble as they head off to type out a resume on the Zenith.

One thing that I LIKE about the IBM world is that the computers are so much
easier to program! On the Mac, geez... I guess in order to make Mac users'
lives easier, the Mac had to make the programmers' job harder.

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