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From: goer@sphinx.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: IBM's new System 2 Personal Computers
Message-ID: <1422@sphinx.uchicago.edu>
Date: Thu, 9-Apr-87 03:01:20 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr  9 03:01:20 1987
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Reply-To: goer@sphinx.UUCP (Richard L. Goerwitz III)
Organization: U Chicago Computation Center
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Summary: Why buy a MAC?  Here's why...


My main reasons for thinking that it might be worth putting up with Apple's
cute little tricks is that its vectored graphics system makes for the easy
display and manipulation of user-defined characters of almost any shape, and
allows applications programs to use these characters without much fuss.  You
see, I often write documents in which I want to display, say, English, German
Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, and Syriac (etc.) all at once.  On an IBM-type machine
this is all but impossible, unless one goes into bit-mapped graphics - a thing
that is slow, hard to use, and even harder to get applications programs to
recognize.  My assumption, from casual use of a Sun, is that it too is not
really meant for such intense multilingual applications.  That leaves me with
(I cry at saying this) a MAC.

Should the new operating systems that are being talked about for the next
generation of IBM micros support vectored graphics systems - or at least
something that would allow for no-fuss character creation and manipulation -
I would be the first to buy one.

                                             -Richard Goerwitz
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