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From: breidenb@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Oliver Breidenbach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: give me solid facts: why is the mac better than MeSsy DOS/WINDOWS
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Date: 4 Mar 91 16:52:47 GMT
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hi there,

Wolfgang, I have two questions:

1.) Do you have no other things to do all the day long as to fight long
    flame wars? (this is a personal question not a flame.)

2.) Did you ever even see a mac? Or programm it? Probably with MacApp?
    Okay, actually these are three questions. But since you can't stand
    to hazzle mac, I assume you haven't use it yet.
    I did the following experiment. At our company we have a person who
    was very impressed by MSDOS PCs. He didn't know a lot about them, but
    as a programmer he fought his way through them quite fast. I was always
    enthusiastic about mac and finally got the management convinced to buy
    macs. The person has a MSDOS machine at his desk for daily work. So he
    didn't get one of the first macs and kept argueing: my pc does anything I
    expect from it. At least recently he got a mac and now there are two
    computers on his desk. And the only reason for the msdos machine to stay
    is that it has a modem build in which is needed from time to time to
    transfer cad data from our CAD system to the company which supplies the
    PCBs. The mac simply does more than he expected it to do...
    About MacApp: I've never seen a simpler way to program complicated things.
    Maybe the NextStep programming tool, but not on a MSDOS machine.
    Using it provides you with the ability to write a text editor with 2000
    lines of code. The program will be very simple but support clipboard
    operations, multible dokuments, different fonts, sizes, and attributes to
    text, file operations and undo... Do you have a comparable programmers
    tool under MSDOS? Oh, I forgot, it also will have printing on any printer
    and will run with any previously and future releases of mac machines.

have fun.


Oliver.