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From: dave@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Dave Hayes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Open Letter to an MS-DOS User
Message-ID: <1991Mar29.015546.24193@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: 29 Mar 91 01:55:46 GMT
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jess@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Jess M Holle) writes:

>In article <1991Mar27.200613.4423@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> dave@elxr.jpl.nasa.gov writes:
>>
>>If you were having these kinds of troubles, it's good that you bought
>>a different machine! These machines are not for the computer incompetant.
>>(Who else would type rm *.* on a DOS machine?)

>of a 70Mb Hard Drive. The point being that on the Mac, I would have simply
>dragged Junk (notice beautiful lowercase lettering) to the trash with NO
>possibility for error.

Interesting. Perhaps you could have missed the trash can and had to redo
the stroke?

In my years of using UNIX and DOS, I have never ever typed del *.* or rm -r *
lightly...not once have I made a mistake of this caliber. I guess I could
never understand someone else making such a mistake.

>>Gee..I could if you tell me how much slower it runs, how much

>AutoCAD illustrations (can you say FOREVER redraw on a 286), or... the list
>goes on. There are numerous applications where the speed of a PC is far
>inferior to the Mac, and these happen to be the same applications that I use

I see. Most of my comparisons are a 386/25 to a Mac SE. Think about it.

>where the PC is faster as well, of course, but sweeping generalizations such
>as the one you make above are ludicrous, especially when I have found my Mac
>to be much faster for the above applications (not to mention other productivity
>gains inherent in the Mac).

Again, I haven't your experience with applications. My experience is directly with
music apps...Finale 2.0 is at least 3 times slower on Mac.

However, you can have that the Mac's are far superior to PCs. Go ahead...I'll
shut up and take my obviously incorrect opinions away...and get back to computing
on my inferior machine. 
-- 
Dave Hayes -  dave@elxr.jpl.nasa.gov - ames!elroy!dxh

People who think they know all are often insufferable.
Rather like those who imagine that they know nothing.