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From: andyb@tardis.wimsey.bc.ca (Andy Babinszki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Macs Suck
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Date: 22 Jan 91 17:39:31 GMT
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In article <1991Jan17.051412.15556@usenet@scion.CS.ORST.EDU>, willism@jacobs.cs.orst.edu (Marty Willis) writes:
>
> ... its hardware and periphreals
> ...
> 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.
> 
> 
>      IBM all the way,
> 
> MARTY
> 

Sorry, I just couldn't resist responding to this one ...

1. periphreals?  We have a similar word in english, peripherals. ;-)

2. What can the expression "real MS-DOS machine" possibly mean?  Does it mean that
   MS-DOS is a _real_ operating system while the Mac OS is not?  No, it cannot imply
   that since MS-DOS is simply an overgrown program loader; an "operating system"
   under which the programmer must write all their own code to do things that one
   would normally use operating system calls to do ( BTW ever hear the expression
   "re-entrant"? - not when you're talking about DOS ).  Does it imply that DOS is
   superior to the Mac because DOS can only directly address 640K and the Mac OS is
   not subject to that limitation?  Not in this universe.  I guess that it must mean
   that real computers are those on which complex documents like impressive presentation
   graphics or spreadsheets and proposals with impact are impossible or extemely 
   difficult to create.  Perhaps it means that real computers are ones which have traps
   and pitfalls such that unwary users can destroy all their data without being infected
   by a computer virus ( the DOS "RECOVER" command anyone? ).  Or perhaps it refers
   to computers which can only run one program at a time.  Or maybe it refers to
   computers which can only access hard disk partitions of up to 33MB.  Of course I'm
   ignoring the capabilities of Windows and Presentation Manager because, presumably,
   they are too much like using a Mac for the users of "real MS-DOS" machines.

   BTW I can MS-DOS on my Mac if I wanted to, but why? :-)


   I   B   M   all the way!
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Andy.

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