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From: Q8N@psuvm.psu.edu (Scott D. Camp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Rumor -> Loss of Mac's 20% advantage over Windows 3.0
Message-ID: <90178.000434Q8N@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 27 Jun 90 04:04:34 GMT
References: <40218215MES@MSU> <42382@apple.Apple.COM> <42383@apple.Apple.COM>
Organization: Penn State University
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In article <42383@apple.Apple.COM>, chuq@Apple.COM (That's MR. Idiot to you)
says:
>
>daveo@Apple.COM (David M. O'Rourke) writes:
>
>>>It's probably a long way off, but lets start worring now!
>
>>  Lets not, and say we did....
>
>My feeling is even simpler. Even if Microsoft CAN clean up Windows and make
>is Just As Good as, say, System 5.0 (remember that? Long, long ago?) it'll
>be a long time before they could even come close to the functionality and
>power of system 6.0 -- and by the time they do, where do you think Apple
>software will be?

I certainly agree that the Mac OS is much simpler to install, maintain, and
use than any version of Windows I have ever seen. (I oversee a lab with 5
Model 70s running 2.1.) I grit my teeth at the thoughts of reinstalling it
(and hDC Windows Express) when something goes wrong. For example, the other
day I couldn't get Excel to run on a 2 meg Model 70 because the PS/2 ran out
of memory due to the FILES and BUFFERS setting I had in the config.sys.

However, unless you happen to work on both the Mac and IBM platforms, you may
not be aware of these types of advantages to the Mac OS. I think someone
recently posted an article 'chastising' Apple for not pointing this fact out
in their advertising of the Mac's advantages. I think I agree with this point.

I think Apple should be more direct in advertising targeted toward Big Blue
users (many of whom may believe, regardless of what the PC press is telling
them, that Windows makes the Mac redundant).

Of course, I don't have access to Apple's marketing info, so take my opinions
for what they're worth. :-) I just wanted to post and state my opinion on
what fun it is to install DOS (I won't even go into the joys of installing
DOS 4.0 and dealing with hard disk partitions over 32 meg) and Windows on a
PS/2. (Again, I must qualify this by stating that I have only seen
Windows 386 v 2.1.)

Scott D. Camp   Q8N@PSUVM.PSU.EDU
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