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From: n138ct@tamuts.tamu.edu (Brent Burton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Macs Suck
Summary: Good joke!
Message-ID: <11341@helios.TAMU.EDU>
Date: 18 Jan 91 23:32:25 GMT
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In article <1991Jan17.051412.15556@usenet@scion.CS.ORST.EDU> willism@jacobs.cs.orst.edu (Marty Willis) writes:
>
  [...mindless gibberish...]
>  This and the other mac newsgroups also
>suck since they support such a machine.  But I guess you guys need a user-
>friendly machine since you can't handle a real MS-DOS machine.
>MARTY


First, Marty is right -- I can't handle a real ms-dos machine.  A real
ms-dos machine is an insult to my intelligence.  Oh? only a 640k limit?
Too bad.  No multitasking either inside the 509K BIT of program-usuable
ram?  That's usable.  And special HACKS to use the 640-1024K range normally
used for device drivers?

The only reason PCs are so popular is because they are cheap (both price
and performance).  I think what marty tried to write was: people who
are able to think about doing activities VISUALLY instead of bossing are
maybe just able to use both halves of their brain?

He writes: 
   since you can't handle a real MS-DOS machine
I write:
   MS-DOS users keep using their machines because
    1) too cheap to use a real machine?
    2) they can't handle a real machine.

That 640K ram limit is a sign of ANTIQUITY.  Even running other OS's on
a PC doesn't guarantee that the entire RAM may be utilized.  When some
of these ridiculous limitations are so inherent to the actual hardware,
it is time for change.  (Maybe it's the thrill of using a classic, not
like driving an old car such as a mustang, but more like a Pinto.)
I honestly
DON'T KNOW what the fascination is with PC's (the IBM kind).  
MS-DOS users are very similar to and may even perhaps be the "old engineer
who loves FORTRAN" types lurking around -- afraid to change to a newer
(and usually better) technology.

Please send all flames/etc. to /dev/null.  It'll make you feel
better.
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