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From: graifer@net1.ucsd.edu (Dan Graifer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: getamac?
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Date: Mon, 4-May-87 16:35:51 EDT
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Posted: Mon May  4 16:35:51 1987
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I have a Mac at home, and use PC clones at my current work.  I'll take the 
Mac for the usual user friendly operating systems reasons, and one more.

I've just done a little programming in non-interpreted languages on both. Even
with my limited experience, the segment register crap on the Intel 80(2)86 
PCs drove me nuts.  This was working in C.  I understand other languages get
around this by limiting the size of continguous memory blocks on the PCs to 
64K.  Whom are they kidding!

An AT for free is better than a Mac even at consortium prices. But just
barely.  Besides, any machine for free lets you wait until the price/
performance ratio improves another order of magnitude or two :-)

                              Dan Graifer
                              graifer@net1.UCSD.EDU
Disclaimer: Nobody ever listens to me anyways; Why should they start now?