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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: 12 Mar 91 02:54:22 GMT
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In article <29390@cs.yale.edu> favorini-francis@cs.yale.edu (Francis Favorini) writes:
|>Fast SVGA cards supporting 800*600 screens are in the price range
|>of 100$ to 200$, so we aren't talking about that much money, here.
|
|It isn't a lot of money for a single user, but if your whole company
|was running slow monochrome cards and you wanted to upgrade your operations
|to Windows, it could add up to a pretty penny.  (and maybe not a justifiable

Yes, let's just give everyone a Mac, that will obviously be lots cheaper.

Why do you keep holding the PC to standards that you don't make the Mac meet?

|The Save As.. box in Excel doesn't allow you to pick a directory from
|a scrolling list.  You just have a box to type in the file (and path,
|if you want).  This is bogus.  I con't name specific prgrams in the

Also untrue, at least for Excel 3.0. I don't have the older Excel anymore.

|following, 'cause I'm at home on my Mac.  Sometimes you pick files from
|one list and directories from another.  Sometimes both from one list.
|Only occasionally can you go easily to the current directory' parent.
|Sometimes there is a button labelled "UP".  Sometimes, you can click
|on ".." in the directory list.  Sometimes you have to type ..\*.*
|in the filename text box.  This is ridiculous.  I guarantee you if

MS seems to be getting more consistent with their newer software.
Maybe Apple is a little ahead in this regard, but I can live with it.

|Of course it is a simple truth.  But that doesn't mean it is ok that
|current PC users should have to struggle in order to not have to throw
|away their previous investments and use still be able to use more
|friendly and powerful Windows programs.  The reality is that DOS and

But the Mac is not an alternative in the sense of being less expensive.

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