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From: jan3@po.CWRU.Edu (James A. Nauer)
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Subject: Re: give me solid facts: why is the mac better than MeSsy DOS/WINDOWS
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Date: 20 Mar 91 23:31:29 GMT
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In a previous article, phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai) says:

>long@mcntsh.enet.dec.com (Rich Long) writes:
>> The fact that something has sold in large numbers does not alone make it
>> good. 


>It does if you care about software availability. You can only
>run Excel 3 on Windows. Can't get it for Mac (yet).

Did it ever occur to you that that might have something to do with the fact
that the company that writes Excel also wrote Windows?  And that that
company's numero uno priority these days is Windows stuff??  Never mind that
are way more macs to write software for than there are copies of Windows in
use.

Note the qualification there!

(BTW, I use the slightly old version of Excel on my Mac; I avoid running
Windows 3.0 on my PC because it destroys the speed of an otherwise useful
computer...)

>--
>The Macintosh makes it easy to do sloppy work.
The implication is that PC's make it hard to do sloppy work.
I agree. PC's make it hard to do ANY work.

Cheers,
 --Jim
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