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From: benoni@ssc-vax.UUCP (Charles L Ditzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: Mac/Sun/..., windows, mice, ... - YAWN
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Date: 16 Mar 88 07:52:06 GMT
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Keywords: Mac, Sun, mice, windows, multitasking, ..., ...

> barnett@steinmetz.ge.com (Bruce G. Barnett) writes:
>     The MacOS is very ambitious, and very impressive. Coming from a
>     no-mouse PC. the MacOS is light-years ahead.
>     
>     But how will it be perceived by the Unix professionals and the power 
>	users?
>     
>     The people with Suns, Apollos, HP's, Vaxes, Symbolics, TI, etc. at work.
> 

I think the Mac II is still a *long* way from a Sun or an Apollo....why?
look no further than a networking windowing system...CASE tools abound on
the sun (this is hardly the Mac II's strong point)...the overall user
interface on the Sun is better in so far as flexibility is concerned....as 
for desktop interfaces...wait...this will be resolved in the next 3 or so
weeks .... (according to the trade rags)...incidentally the *TOOLS* that
Sun provides makes it NO CONTEST...(CGI, 2d-3d CORE, SunView libraries, 
NeWS/X11, SunTools, source code to SunTools, ... in addition when the 
new 386 rolls out MS-DOS compatibility will be another given...