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From: jerry@polygen.uucp (Jerry Shekhel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Xerox sues Apple!!!
Message-ID: <627@bogart.UUCP>
Date: 20 Dec 89 21:57:24 GMT
References: <33269@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <9106@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Reply-To: jerry@bogart.UUCP (Jerry Shekhel)
Organization: Polygen Corporation, Waltham, MA
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In article <9106@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
>
>If you're not running OS/2 on your PC machine, there are MANY things a Mac can
>do better than a PC (the current Mac OS and OS/2 each support the same amount
>of memory).
>

You fail to mention, however, that the current MacOS is a far cry from the
functionality offered by the current OS/2 (1.2).  The latter is a real OS,
while MacOS is more like MS-DOS with menus and big filenames (which are
unreadable after you do a "Clean Up Window" by the way).

I don't see the point of all these arguments, comparing the latest version
of Mac system software against some old version of DOS.  If we're talking
about native operating systems, why not compare MacOS to OS/2?  I strongly
suspect that the discussion would have been over dozens of articles ago.

>
>OS/2 could probably do the
>same things, though it would take significantly more memory, it's less efficient,
>

Take away the DOS compatibility box from OS/2, and it doesn't require any more
memory than the upcoming MacOS 7.0 -- 2MB.  Less efficient?  Let's have some
proof, eh?

>
>and it's limited to 16 megs of address space.
>

Yep, that's a processor limitation.  However, OS/2 programs have access to
1GB of virtual space.  Why don't you call me when you upgrade your 68000-based
Amiga beyond 16MB of physical RAM and an operating system with true
memory management and protection.

>-- 
>Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Systems Engineering) "The Crew That Never Rests"
>   {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh      PLINK: hazy     BIX: hazy
>                    Too much of everything is just enough
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