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From: paul@aucs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Byte benchmark articles (Re: Mac C Compilers)
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Date: Fri, 14-Aug-87 08:14:11 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 14 08:14:11 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 15-Aug-87 16:40:45 EDT
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Reply-To: paul@aucs.UUCP (Paul Steele)
Organization: School of Computer Science, Acadia Univ., Nova Scotia
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>All in all I find Mr. Hsu's comments to be ill founded, irresponsible and
>offensive.  He obviosuly does not have any real understaning of the issues
>involved and is just as highly biased towards the 68k as he claims byte
>to be towards the 80x86.
>
I agree with Brian, although I felt Byte's choice for a 68020-based micro
was very poor.  A Macintosh spends something like 25% of its time updating
the screen, and you can bet that the Compaq 386 does not.  And Brian's argument
that more people are likely to own the enhanced Mac than a Sun or Apollo is
probably true, but I know more people who own/use Sun's/Apollo's than 68020-
enhanced Mac's.  Incidently, I own both a Compaq Deskpro (8088) and a Mac SE
and use both equally.  I prefer the Mac, but I am realistic about the presence
of PC's in the computer industry.
>
>-Brian
>
>Note 1:  There is *absolutely* no reason for profanity in a well presented
>argument.  Mr. Hsu has obviously replace four letter words for reasoning.
>This type of argument style is nothing more than offensive and has no
>place on the net.
>
I totally agree with Brian.  Certain people tend to use profanity to get a
point across, but if they actually tried, they probably could find a better
way to say the same thing and not make a fool of themselves in the process!


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