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From: Jim.Matthews@dartmouth.edu (Jim Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Rumor -> Loss of Mac's 20% advantage over Windows 3.0
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Date: 28 Jun 90 13:48:30 GMT
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In article <1990Jun27.180718.3155@portia.Stanford.EDU>,
aaron@jessica.stanford.edu (Aaron Wallace) writes:
> 
> No one (outside of Apple?!) claims Windows is trying to be a Mac.  

Ahem.  I guess you missed the three-page ads Zenith has been running in PC
mags, trumpeting Windows 3.0 with the line "At last, you can have 
everything you love about the PC... plus the best of Macintosh".

Our local PC-clone dealer runs Windows ads proclaiming "A Macintosh interface
at a PC price!".

MicroSoft may not call Windows Mac-like, probably to avoid legal hot water,
but their OEMs and dealers don't hesitate to hype Windows as a substitute 
for the Mac interface.  Fans of the original are entitled to point out what
a poor substitute it is.

--
Jim Matthews
Dartmouth Software Development