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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: MAC PEOPLE TAKE OVER
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Date: 3 Jul 90 21:14:08 GMT
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In article <4990@mace.cc.purdue.edu> asd@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Kareth) writes:
>So unless Apple can ever price a machine like NeXT can, I'll never get
>a Mac for my next computer.  And IBM/clones have ALWAYS seemed user
>hostile to me, and don't even speak to me about Windows, makes me gag.

A lot of people happily run genuine UNIX on their IBM/clone hardware.
These days a variety of display-oriented user interfaces are available.
It's hard to beat that family for hardware prices, because it is an
extremely competitive market.  386 and 486 platforms can look quite
unlike the old MS-DOS environments that made IBM PCs so unappealing.