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From: naftoli@aecom.UUCP (Robert N. Berlinger)
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Subject: Re: Re: Buying: PC vs. the Mac
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Date: Tue, 6-May-86 19:34:57 EDT
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> 3.  You can write programs for the XT far more easily than for the Mac.

I don't totally agree with this.  If you are saying that it's easier to
write a program on the XT that looks like every other XT program than it
is to write a program on the Mac that looks like every other Mac program
(windows, menus, dialog boxes, etc.), then, yes, it's easier to
write such a program on the XT.

However, if you want to write a program on the Mac that looks like an XT
program (interactive prompting, text only, etc.), it's not any harder at all,
especially if you make use of the UNIX standard I/O environment that most of
the C compilers provide.

I wouldn't be caught dead writing such a program, but if you needed to,
the features are available.
-- 
Robert Berlinger
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