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From: macman@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Dennis H Lippert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: give me solid facts: why is the mac better than MeSsy DOS/WINDOWS
Message-ID: <102510@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Date: 12 Mar 91 20:00:54 GMT
References: <1991Mar9.023444.17526@amd.com> <29391@cs.yale.edu> <1991Mar12.030105.11850@amd.com>
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In article <1991Mar12.030105.11850@amd.com> phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai) writes:
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>|>Let's see, the IBM PC came out in 1980 and the Mac came out when?
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>|1984.  So IBM and Microsoft have had longer to screw things up.
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>And Apple has less history to be compatible with.
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Let's see,  the LC has an Apple ][ card available... that takes us back to 1976.
Does IBM have a System/23 card for the PC? (circa 1981/82).  I'd bet the PC 
can't even interface an 8" disk, as did the System/23.  And don't say that the
Mac can't... because *it* doesn't have to be compatible to earlier IBM stuff.

dennis Lippert - macman@unix.cis.pitt.edu