Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bbn!uwmcsd1!lakesys!marc
From: marc@lakesys.UUCP (Marc Rassbach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: If the GS meant business...
Message-ID: <834@lakesys.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jul 88 22:45:20 GMT
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Reply-To: marc@lakesys.UUCP (Marc Rassbach)
Organization: Lake Systems - Milwaukee, WI
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Tom,

    What do you mean when you say "all code goes through an interperter?"  
Do you mean the 'standard user interface' ie the 'toolbox' or the microcode on
the microprocessor?  

    If you mean the 'toolbox', I hate to tell you this, but the newer IBM's
are supporting such a bizzare concept.    IBM is now pushing an operating
system called OS/2, and one of the main features of OS/2 is the graphics
interface to the software.   (To use the words of an Apple rep. I know, IBM
now stands for I Built a Mac!  (in ref. to the announcement of OS/2))

    Don't get me wrong, an IBM is great for running a bbs, storing lotsa data
for processing in a Dbase, etc.    But no IBMer can get the same level of
desk-top publishing for the same $$$ as a Mac owner.  And I have yet to see
IBM programs (the majority) as user freindly as a Mac.    (my personal
preferance:   User hostile software that one has to subdue.   Makes one enjoy
a good program  :-) 

Marc Rassbach
The ideas expressed are my own, and if you don't like them, you are in the
majority.
"Ask me no questions, and I shall tell you no lies.   FNORD."