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From: phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
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: 9 Mar 91 02:34:44 GMT
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favorini-francis@cs.yale.edu (Francis Favorini) writes:
>My point is that the fundamental problem with MS-DOS/Windows systems is that
>most people using Windows also want to use DOS programs.  Switching back
>and forth is a hassle, despite the DOS box in Windows, which very often
>doesn't allow you to use a DOS program to the fullest, if at all.  Why do
>people want to use DOS programs?  Because plenty of useful programs are not
>available in Windows versions.  And I'm not talking about old programs,
>but current stuff put out by MAJOR companies.  (E.g. Paradox by Borland)

You're just whining about a very temporary problem. I believe there are
more copies of Win3 sold than there are Macs now. Many Mac sw houses
are porting to Win3. Nearly all the DOS people are porting to Win3. In
a year or so, there will be very few DOS apps that you can't get in a
Windows version.

This kind of complaint doesn't really provide any information which is
of lasting value.

Frankly, I also don't understand why you find switching back and forth
so difficult. I have done it. It just takes an ALT-TAB. Easy.

>Now you might say there are several databases/word processors/speadsheets
>available.  But if the one I've been using for the past three years isn't
>among them it doesn't do me a whole lot of good.  I have too much time
>and effort invested in XYZ program to convert over easily.  I am not

Well, I can see why you, as a Lotus 123 user, so much prefer the Mac
over the PC then. You seem like a very confused fellow.

>Conceptually, two programs might work, if they cooperate well.  I don't think
>Program and File Manager do.

Another short lived complaint. MS will address this problem. Your information
has a lifetime of about 6 months.

>It may have nothing to do with Windows, but it has everything to do with
>PCs.  The point here is that you have to be compatible to your previous
>mistakes, unless you can afford to alienate your current user base.
>Obviously, both Apple and Microsoft feel they can't.  However, I think
>Apple has been more succesful at maintaining a smooth transition to new
>versions of their system software than Microsoft has.  (Granted Microsoft

Let's see, the IBM PC came out in 1980 and the Mac came out when?

>Here again, I have to say that PC users suffer from the fact that DOS and
>Windows beat each other up sometimes.

What's this I hear about clean 32-bit code on the Mac? Well, there's
no dirty Mac sw like there is PC sw, is there?

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