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From: phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
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Subject: Re: give me solid facts: why is the mac better than MeSsy DOS/WINDOWS
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Date: 26 Mar 91 17:35:10 GMT
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STREATER@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU (415) writes:
>This I find to be a rather frightening attitude, albeit an unsurprising one.
>This is the attitude for which we have to thank IBM for OS/360, MVS, and CMS.
>Sure it gets the job done, but a bigger pile of junk (in all three cases) I
>have yet to see. None of these systems will ever get below a certain level of
>bugginess, simply because they are too large, unwieldy, and over-extended.

You're overlooking the fact that there is a clear upgrade path from DOS
to Windows to OS/2. Win and OS/2 have DOS boxes and they are good enough.

I'm sure it's no surprise to you that the Mac is not bug free either,
so let's not live in glass houses and throw stones.

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