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From: madd@world.std.com (jim frost)
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Subject: Re: Xerox sues Apple!!!
Message-ID: <1989Dec20.033050.23680@world.std.com>
Date: 20 Dec 89 03:30:50 GMT
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king@dciem.dciem.dnd.ca (Stephen King) writes:
>In article <33269@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> kipnis@janus.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Gary Kipnis) writes:
>>Please give a single example of what you can do faster on a mac than on a pc.
>Any operation on a numeric array with more than 64k of data.

If you consider a PC as an ms-dos based system, then the answer to the
"what can be done faster on a Mac than a PC" is easily generalized as
"anything which requires a large data space".  Image processing, for
instance, or large sorting operations, or heavy database use, or large
spreadsheets, or much of physics.

If you throw out the MS-DOS and move to 32-bit 80x86 systems, then
it's a lot closer, but you get to abandon MS-DOS in favor of something
a little more useful.

Happy hacking,

jim frost
madd@std.com