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From: mrl@oddjob.UUCP (Scott R. Anderson)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: MacWorld Show impression
Message-ID: <1468@oddjob.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 5-Sep-86 06:27:46 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep  5 06:27:46 1986
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In article <1467@oddjob.UUCP> I write:
>>Of course I have yet to see UltraRogue for the Mac :-)
>
>As someone else pointed out, this may be the important difference; there
>is a huge base of software for UNIX machines, and Suns have one of the
>most faithful BSD implementations around.  It will be a long time before
>the Mac catches up (unless, of course, it goes UNIX, too :-).  One thing
>to consider, though, is that commercial software for Suns is typically
>an order of magnitude more expensive than Mac software (the result of
>larger budgets, I'm sure; this is known as the IBM-PC syndrome).  It
>is also less likely to take advantage of the Sun window system, as it
>can lean on the underlying UNIX.

One other point that bears being made explicit:  the price of a Sun
includes a complete set of Berkeley UNIX software.  This includes
editors, troff, C, Fortran, Pascal...  Nowadays, you even have to pay
extra to get MacWrite for a Macintosh.

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