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From: ralphw@ius3.ius.cs.cmu.edu (Ralph Hyre)
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Subject: Re: MAC II vs IBM PS/2 model 70
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Date: 15 Sep 88 19:41:00 GMT
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In article <394@unocss.UUCP> dent@unocss.UUCP (Dave Caplinger) writes:
>In article <QX7VWWyS2k-0E0m2FX@andrew.cmu.edu>, ls1i+@andrew.cmu.edu (Leonard John Schultz) writes:
>> 
>>   I am considering purchasing either an IBM model 70 or an Apple Mac II.  I
>> What do you think?
>the ITC was thinking/working on running a kind of
>mini-Messages on the Macs... so I imagine that it can't be that far off.
Back to the 'thinking about' stage, even after some implementation efforts.

When I see an ITC person these days (I'm in Computer Science, and I don't even
track what they do), I say 'how about just getting a MacOS X11, so you don't
have to write any more software'  Although copying text may be more efficient
than copying the font representation, do you REALLY want to write a Andrew
FileSystem client for the MacOS.

Anyway, no MacoS X11 seems to exist yet, even in beta form.
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