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From: john@newave.UUCP (John A. Weeks III)
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: 14 Mar 91 05:18:34 GMT
References: <1991Mar9.023444.17526@amd.com> <29391@cs.yale.edu> <1991Mar12.030105.11850@amd.com> <102510@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
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In article <102510@unix.cis.pitt.edu> macman@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Dennis H Lippert) writes:
>In article <1991Mar12.030105.11850@amd.com> phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai) writes:
>>|>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.

You must have forgotten some of the early PC history.  The PC was introduced
in 1981.  Most of the early PC's were 64k units with cassette drives.  Things
didn't really take off for the PC until hard disks were supported.

> Let's see, the LC has an Apple ][ card available...that takes us back to 1976.

And the Mac Plus could run "][ In A Mac" several years back.

> 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.

And does anyone remember IBM's other PC from the early 1980s?  The 68000
CPU machine called the 5x00 (or something)?  How about the PC system 36
stuff?  Or about those early PC-RT's?

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