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From: piper@s5000.rsvl.unisys.com (Piper Keairnes)
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: 5 Mar 91 23:41:01 GMT
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carter@cat27.cs.wisc.edu (Gregory Carter) writes:

>Many of the problems with IBM hardware can be easily overcome by a good
>standardized software specification, which now appears to be quite
>widespread with so many windows owners, remember there are more window
>owners than there are Mac owners.

At work, I've been testing out a new Windows based terminal application
on one of the fastest PC's in the department. The program is perhaps one
of the best terminal environments available to our employees, but the sad
thing is that the refresh rate and the throughput of the screen is
unacceptable.

I understand that Windows 3.0 is now very wide spread, but the simple fact
remains that the hardware required to make Windows palatable would be too
costly for many organizations. For employees to move to the Windows
product, they would have to sacrifice speed... a great deal of speed. The
managers like the functionality we'd gain, but the programmers won't use
the program until we get faster hardware. That isn't going to happen
anytime soon. A mere Mac Classic performs better than a 25MHz 386 when it
comes to the windowing interface slapped on top of DOS.

All in all, Windows is a STEP in the right direction, but it isn't going
to stop people from buying Macs... not after they've sat down at each
computer and taken a trial run.

Disclaimers:
  If I spoke for my employer I'd be a salesperson, not a programmer.

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