Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!exodus!appserv!sun!amdcad!brahms!phil 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: <1991Mar16.022325.21686@amd.com> Date: 16 Mar 91 02:23:25 GMT References: <29391@cs.yale.edu> <1991Mar12.030105.11850@amd.com> Sender: usenet@amd.com (NNTP Posting) Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc; Sunnyvale, CA Lines: 37 In article francis@zaphod.uchicago.edu writes: |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* I didn't say it just entered beta, as a matter of fact, it's been in beta test for quite a while. |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 Now that Windows 3 is out and has in its first year (not over yet) sold as many copies as there are Macs, all the software houses are rushing to provide Win apps. Again, I don't care about history, I'm looking at the future. Win has Excel 3, what does Mac have? Win has a much better Word than Mac has. |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 Ok, just think of Win as a new machine. One which costs a lot less than the Mac and has more software support. |Yeah, right. DOS started breaking several years ago. Don't worry, MS will fix DOS. -- The government is not your mother. The government doesn't love you.