Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!ucbvax!wpi.BITNET!TMURPHY From: TMURPHY@wpi.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: IBM 70 vs. Mac II Message-ID: <8809052044.AA11104@wpi.local> Date: 5 Sep 88 20:44:06 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 12 If the prices are relatively equivilient, I'd say go for the Mac II. It's ability to run Unix, plus the relative standardness of NuBus, as opposed to IBM's propriatary Micto Channel, probably give it an edge over the PCs. And there are some good CADD packages available for it currently. Tom ________________________________________________________________ Thomas C. Murphy Worcester Polytechnic Institute CAD Lab Mechanical Engineering Dept. BITNET: TMURPHY@WPI Arpanet: tmurphy%wpi.bitnet@talcott.harvard.edu