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From: schaut@cat9.cs.wisc.edu (Richard Schaut)
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Subject: Re: PC's are democratic; Mac's are fascistic
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Date: 19 Dec 89 16:27:15 GMT
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In article <1989Dec18.210455.29522@deimos.cis.ksu.edu> jxf@phobos.cis.ksu.edu (Jerry Frain) writes:
| [ lot of stuff about IBM PC/compatibles having superior graphics to Macs
|   suppressed... ]
| 
| Well, most of this may be true, however, I have yet to find a general
| purpose type word processor for the IBM PC/compatible which has WYSIWYG
| features; hence, being able to *see* italics, etc. instead of simply
| changing the colors of the text to represent different fonts.
| 
| Bah, I say to graphics!  Show me something simple, something tangible
| like the word processing capability I described above.  The Mac has
| had these capabilities since what?  1983?  Something like that.

Let's see, MicroSoft Word has been around since '82, and has had true
WYSIWYG since the first release.  If you want to put the Mac up against
the PC in word processing, the Mac loses on all fronts.  In fact, the
Mac loses in all general business applications, and that gap is going
to widen over the next year or so.


--
Rick

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