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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
Message-ID: <1991Mar12.030105.11850@amd.com>
Date: 12 Mar 91 03:01:05 GMT
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In article <29391@cs.yale.edu> favorini-francis@cs.yale.edu (Francis Favorini) writes:
|I'm not whining about a very temporary problem.  Would you buy a car if
|your wife couldn't ride in it for at least a year?  I think it will be
|longer than a year, anyway.  Win 3.1 might not even be out this year,
|and when will DOS 5.0 be here?

Over the long term, what my wife drives this year is of vanishingly
small importance to where the market goes.

DOS 5.0 is in beta NOW. I could get a copy if I wanted. If it's not
out by summer I'd be very surprised.

|They have gotten better, but have not gone away.  They will not be
|gone for at least a year, probably more like two or three.  Time will tell.
|The point is that they're here now, and if you have work to do now, you have to
|live with them.  I can't tell my boss that I will give him something he
|wants on Friday next year when Windows and DOS are better friends.

Like I said, it really doesn't matter to the market what you buy this year.
If your boss wants a Mac, then get one. In two or three years, when all
the apps come out for Windows and the Mac is a poor cousin as far as the
latest version of software, then you can get your boss a PC.

|>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.
|
|I DO NOT use Lotus 123.  It is mostly garbage.  When I say XYZ program, I
|mean any DOS program which doesn't work well with Windows.  And there
|are plenty.

And the MAC runs these bad DOS programs better? Ha!

|>Let's see, the IBM PC came out in 1980 and the Mac came out when?
|
|1984.  So IBM and Microsoft have had longer to screw things up.

And Apple has less history to be compatible with.

|>>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?
|
|I didn't say the Mac is perfect, but it remains to be seen how bad the
|problems are.

At least you admit the Mac is not perfect either.

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