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From: hackett@obelix.gaul.csd.uwo.ca (MICHAEL HACKETT)
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Subject: Re: My decision for the LC
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Date: 17 Feb 91 03:28:14 GMT
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In article <1991Feb11.010100.1@gacvx1.gac.edu> youngdahl@gacvx1.gac.edu writes:
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>Actually, the funny thing is that I'll always be an Apple 2 owner.  I've got a 
>II+ sitting downstairs -- that will still be there when my GS has been replaced
>by a Mac LC.  
>
>Just think cars, instead of computers.
>
...
>
>My original post was not meant to be taken as a "Mac is better than the GS"
>statement.  I said:  "For me, the Mac will be better than my GS."
>
>Ben Youngdahl

   I agree that everyone should pick the computer that is best for them.  That is
why I would not recommend a Mac over a GS or IBM <chuckle> clone to anyone new to
computers.  But for me the Mac just does not give me the feeling of being in control.
And messy-DOS has very much earded its name.  I program in MicroSoft C 6.0 at work
and I don't like it much at all.  Even with all its bugs and shortcomings, I much
prefer ORCA.  And to continue your car analogy, for me a Mac is an automatic and the
GS is a stick.  No auto-phile (sorry I don't know the proper term) would buy a car
with an automatic transmission, as it just doesn't give him as much control over the
vehicle.  I may be one of a dying breed (ML programmers) but I love hacking away on
my GS.  Don't take this the wrong way (I do very much like women) but I find the GS
to be much more "intimate" (might be the wrong choice of words) than other machine.
Nothing is as cold as an IBM-box, and the metal cases than most have don't help any.
I will never change my primary platform from a II or a II-type of machine if another
one ever comes along, though I will have to program both Macs and IBMs and Amigas, etc.
to take advantage of the full software market, but I will always write for GS (or its
successor - so I hope) first.


    Just me $.40 + G.S.T. worth...


    Mike Hackett