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From: gft_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu
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Subject: Re: Rumor -> Loss of Mac's 20% advantage over Windows 3.0
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Date: 27 Jun 90 19:36:41 GMT
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In article <2932@gmdzi.UUCP>, strobl@gmdzi.UUCP (Wolfgang Strobl) writes...
 
>>  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.



Hmm.  Last time I looked Windows was an a windowing interface to the MS-DOS
operating system.  MS-DOS is not a multitasking OS, as far as I know.  Now
Windows may accomplish multitasking, but to say that it was designed as such
from the beginning is misleading; I doubt DOS was designed from the beginning
to be a "multitasking and multiapplication system from the very beginning".

Robert



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