Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!caen!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!emory!att!linac!midway!zaphod!francis From: francis@zaphod.uchicago.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: give me solid facts: why is the mac better than MeSsy DOS/WINDOWS Message-ID: Date: 13 Mar 91 07:05:06 GMT References: <29227@cs.yale.edu> <1991Mar9.023444.17526@amd.com> <29391@cs.yale.edu> <1991Mar12.030105.11850@amd.com> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: Mathematics Department, University of Chicago Lines: 48 In-Reply-To: phil@brahms.amd.com's message of 12 Mar 91 03:01:05 GMT In article <1991Mar12.030105.11850@amd.com> phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai) writes: 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. Short beta period, don't you think? Mac Sys7 is going to be *damn* well-tested before it hits the market. 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. Excuse me, but the Mac has not been significantly behind on the software front for some years now. (And the initial lag was due to its complicated programming interface. [Note that I mean "more complicated than programming a text-based machine."]) And a lot of the word-processing and graphics (examples I know well, is all) advances in the DOS world have been stuff that Macs have done better for years anyway. |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! Don't be snide. If I buy a machine that runs a lot of software, get used to it, then want to convert to a GUI, I'm going to ask whether that GUI will let me run my old apps. You don't expect that when you change machines. Making a Mac (It's *not* MAC, and I don't understand where you idiots get the idea that it is) run DOS programs would take ridiculous amounts of emulation. |>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. Yeah, right. DOS started breaking several years ago. -- /============================================================================\ | Francis Stracke | My opinions are my own. I don't steal them.| | Department of Mathematics |=============================================| | University of Chicago | Until you stalk and overrun, | | francis@zaphod.uchicago.edu | you can't devour anyone. -- Hobbes | \============================================================================/