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From: jerry@polygen.uucp (Jerry Shekhel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Re^2: Something else you can't do on the Mac
Message-ID: <656@fred.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jan 90 14:32:44 GMT
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Reply-To: jerry@fred.UUCP (Jerry Shekhel)
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In article <519@tci.bell-atl.com> kempf@tci.bell-atl.com (Cory Kempf) writes:
>
>If you are going to post examples to "Prove" that a machine with a 16
>bit processor, a 640kB limit on RAM and a 32MB disk size limit is
>better than a system with a 32 bit processor, capable of fully using
>32 MB of RAM, and a 4GB disk size limit, at least try to come up with
>reasonable examples.  
>

Looks like you're comparing a 1981 PC running some prehistoric version
of DOS to a 1987 Mac II.  As I've said before, this type of totally
unfair comparison seems to be the basis for all of the senseless claims
of Mac superiority.

If you insist on using a current Mac in your argument, let's use a current
PC as well -- a 386 system running OS/2.

16-bit processor?  Try again.

640KB RAM limit?  Nope.  OS/2 addresses as much physical RAM as you can
get your hands on.  And it's a *real* OS with virtual memory and preemptive
multitasking.

32MB disk size limit?  Well, let's see.  What was the Mac's disk size limit
before Apple switched file systems?  Now that IBM has switched file systems
to OS/2's HPFS, the PC has a *file* size limit in the *gigabytes*.

>-- 
>Cory Kempf		Technology Concepts	     phone: (508) 443-7311 x341
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