Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!unido!gmdzi!strobl
From: strobl@gmdzi.UUCP (Wolfgang Strobl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Rumor -> Loss of Mac's 20% advantage over Windows 3.0
Message-ID: <2932@gmdzi.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jun 90 17:41:45 GMT
References: <40218215MES@MSU> <42382@apple.Apple.COM>
Organization: GMD, Sankt Augustin, F. R. Germany
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daveo@Apple.COM (David M. O'Rourke) writes:

>>There goes the 20% that Windows 3.0 couldn't do that the Mac could...

>  When did windows become easy to install, easy to maintain, easy to
>network, when did it get a consistant interface, where's the standard
                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Why do you think the Windows 3.0 interface is inconsistent? Please explain.

>networking protocol, standard print drivers, easy to configure new programms
                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Huh? Windows has a standard printer interface (to the programmer / application
/ user) and comes with one or two disks full of printer drivers. The hardware
compatibility list I got with my copy of Windows 3 specifies 169 different
printers (some built by your company:-). 
Windows does not force you to buy one of a few "standard" printers. That's
fine for me, the user.
   
>on your HD, etc...

>  I don't know where this mythical 20% comes from, and I don't see how DOS
>would make up that difference.  Most all of the articles that I've been
>reading {both Mac and PC mags} have gone out of their way to point out that
>while Windows is nice, it's no Macintosh, and that if you *really* want a
>quality system then the Mac is a better machine.

I don't think so. Windows main advantage is that is was designed as a
multitasking and multiapplication system from the very beginning.

Wolfgang Strobl