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From: tmyers@athena.mit.edu (Tracy S Myers)
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Subject: Re: Accepting the Mac (was Re: More Macweek Rumors)
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Date: 19 Mar 90 14:44:11 GMT
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In article <1990Mar18.231146.9843@eng.umd.edu> cyliao@eng.umd.edu (Chun-Yao Liao) writes:
>In article <1990Mar17.172902.9711@athena.mit.edu> tmyers@athena.mit.edu (Tracy S Myers) writes:
>
>>I don't want to start
>>a Apple ][ is better than MS-DOS or Mac or other such war.  I merely
>>want to point out that for better or worse, the ][ is dead for reasons
>>which do not neccessarily concern the machine or its capabilities.
>>
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
      [Keep this excerpt from my previous post in mind]

>>Wake up and take a hard look at reality.  I used to have an Apple ][e, and
>>was very fond of it.  In its day it was a very nice machine, but no
>>amount of upgrading and patching up will help the ][.  It's dead so let
>>it rest in peace.  
>
>Wake up you! I guess you wrote this when your body temperature is over
>100 degree fahrenheit... 
>
>Don't make me wrong, not many people at my working place like to use an IBM
>or MeSsy-Dos oriented computer. Every single person who I suggested to try
>out a Mac II or an Apple //gs never go back to IBM again unless using the
>IBM is part of their HW assignment. Hey, I am not talking about elementary
>school, I am talking about adult education technology center! Forgot to 
>mention that we have Mac IIs, a few Mac SE, Apple //gses, Apple //es, and
>IBM ps/2s in a separate small and "hotter" room while the number of IBMs is
>practically the same to the number of Mac IIs or to the Apple //s.
>
>Excuse me for my use of languages.
>--
>|I want Rocket Chip 10 MHz, Z-Ram Ultra II, UniDisk 3.5 | cyliao@wam.umd.edu  |
>|I want my own NeXT, 50MHz 68040, 64Mb RAM, 660Mb SCSI, |    Chun Yao Liao    |
>|              NeXT laser printer, net connection.      | Accepting Donations!|
>/* If (my_.signature =~ yours)  coincidence = true; else ignore_this = true; */

If you read my previous post, you would see that I make no claim that MS-DOS
machines are better or worse than Macs or Apple II machines. Maybe  Joe
Montana should go on tv and challenge the IBM mime to come and take a
taste test of MS-DOS vs Mac.  But, that is NOT my point. What I am 
talking about is not homework assignments, but money.   Whether you (or I)
like it or not the overwhelming majority of businesses buy MS-DOS. MS-DOS
is the standard (however lousy a standard it is).  The mac has done quite
well, because it offers cababilities which are still hard to get with 
an MS-DOS machine.  No amount of whining about the Apple II and what
a nice machine it is will change the reality of the market.