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From: johnston@oscar.ccm.udel.edu (Bill Johnston)
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Subject: Re: Announcement from Microsoft
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Date: 4 Apr 91 04:35:49 GMT
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In article <1991Apr1.231547.20368@leland.Stanford.EDU>, aaron@jessica.stanford.edu (Aaron Wallace) writes...
>>>Announcing, at last, a revolutionary new system that gives you even more
>>>Announcing...  [  ... Windows for the Mac ... ]

>Actually, the first half of the "joke," about the Mac world being "left
>out," sounded authentic enough... :-)

So did the second part, which gave you an idea of how much you'd have
to spend on hardware and software to get a GUI that runs as fast as 
Mac OS on a Classic just out of the box (5 minutes out of the box, mind you)

.. you can only compare Apples with Apples, 'cuz oranges (or Blues,
    just ain't the same ...

-- Bill Johnston (johnston@oscar.ccm.udel.edu)