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From: mitchell@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com.commodore.com (Fred Mitchell - PA)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac vs. PC -- Shut Up Already!
Message-ID: <9429@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com.commodore.com>
Date: 23 Jan 90 05:15:30 GMT
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Reply-To: mitchell@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com.commodore.com (Fred Mitchell - PA)
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In article <6388@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> ar4@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Piper Keairnes) writes:
>...
>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.

Hmmm... I've never programmed a Mac, but have done a lot of work on an IBM.
Yuck. I hate writing programs for IBM. That silly segmented architecture,
640 program limit, crummy operating system, and the lack of standard
peripherials/drivers makes it a nightmare to work in, depending on the
appication one intends to implement. You have to do *alot* of work to
produce something that looks half decent. At least the Mac gives you
tools to work with. The Amiga is definitely the greatest. But I'll take
nearly any 68XXX system over the IBM!!!!

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	Mitchell
	mitchell@cbmvax.UUCP
	Amiga/68XXX Enthusaist
	Opinions are my own. Period. Leave my boss out of it!