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From: gumby@cs.mcgill.ca (Phil PRANNO)
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Subject: Re: A sad day...
Message-ID: <1991Mar12.051514.2655@cs.mcgill.ca>
Date: 12 Mar 91 05:15:14 GMT
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In article <1991Mar10.043404.25950@cs.utk.edu> lape@cs.utk.edu (Bryon S. Lape) writes:
>In article <13151@helios.TAMU.EDU> mcl9337@aim1.tamu.edu (MARK CHRISTOPHER LOWE) writes:
>>I just read that thing about the case between Apple and Microsoft.
>>
>>Man... it's a damn pathetic day when you can't put a window on top of another
>>without getting slapped with a suit.  What's so proprietary about overlapping
>>windows?  What the hell else are you going to do with them?
>>
>>And icons??  Big deal!  How else are you going to graphically represent files?
>>
>>I hope the hell Apple doesn't win this.  Who uses Macs anyway??  {:-<
>>People that are afraid of computers!!
>>
>
>	No, people who like using microprocessors without segmentation.
>People who are tired of lousy 16-bit SVGA and want 24-bit.  People who like
>to pay less than $50/meg for 80ns SIMMS.  People who liek doing more than
>Windows will do even now.
>
>
>Bryon Lape

Some more Mac-bashing:


Most (if not ALL) people who own Macs NOW originally bought it because of
its ease of use... come on, face it.

I'm almost certain that when you were shopping for your first Mac, your first
question was certainly NOT "Does the CPU use a segmented architecture?".

Yeah, yeah, there are more powerful Macs now, but none of them even
compare to a well-equiped fast 386 or 486. 

Therefore, your statements above seem (to me anyways) quite strange. If
you want power, get a NeXT.

IBM has withstood the clone-ing of their machines (without lawsuits).
We'll see how well Apple does...

For the price of a Mac, you can get a NeXTStation (68040 - UNIX based)
which is light years ahead of the Mac in ease of use and functionality...


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