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From: jb10320@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Desdinova)
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Subject: Re: Apple II / Mac discusson (was:Re:Official"No New Apple II's")
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Date: 5 Nov 90 17:22:21 GMT
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In article <1990Nov5.074336.3086@utstat.uucp> philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough) writes:
>In article <8432@darkstar.ucsc.edu> unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) writes:
>[ stuff quoted...]
>
>>	What can the Mac do that the GS can't do?

>Well the GS can't be a tektronics' terminal and it can't type a 
>mathematical equation. There's a lot more...Still, the GS is a very

   It can't type a mathematical equation? So what's that program I see in
the back of InCider/A+ every month?
   And as for a tektronics terminal emulation, 80% of the Macintrashes out
there can't do it either.  It takes some very expensive hardware to emulate
some very specialized hardware.  Buy a Tek terminal if you're worried about
Tek emulation.

>nice computer( and makes a nice vt100 terminal) but it could do with
>a 640x400(monochrome) resolution.
>
>Philip McDunnough
>University of Toronto->philip@utstat.toronto.edu
>[my opinions]
>
>Oh, and the GS won't run TeX.
 
   It will soon.. do you remember that post, asking for help with using
LinkIIgs with a LARGE number of object files?  Did you look at the filenames
being linked?  TeX left and right...

   The GS has a dearth of applications. If people would stop griping about
"Well,the GS can't do such-n-such" and get off their butts and write the
things they need, the world would be a better place.

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