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From: jdevoto@Apple.COM (Jeanne A. E. DeVoto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Something else you can't do on the Mac
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Date: 9 Jan 90 06:30:37 GMT
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In article <818@edstip.EDS.COM> ohrnb@edstip.EDS.COM (Erik Ohrnberger) writes:
>If you buy a Mac, all you'll ever run is Finder and System.
>If you buy a PC compatible you have a choice, based on your needs:
>DOS, Unix, Xenix, Pick, PC-MOS and a whole host of others.  If you needs
>change, you can change the OS to meet the new needs.  If you have a Mac,
>and your needs change, you'll have to make System and Finder meet
>the need, or replacing both with something that works.

Uh, yeah. Apple sells two operating systems for the Mac: the Mac OS and
a UNIX. You can buy an emulator that will run DOS in software, in a window,
under the Mac OS. If you don't like A/UX, I understand someone has ported
Minix.

Also, even if you restrict yourself to the Mac OS, the Finder is not the
only shell out there. I can think offhand of four alternatives, none of them
expensive, two that operate as desk accessories.

>If I have a 386 PC clone, and need to get into Multi-User OS, I just by
>some memory, some disk, and some software.  The Mac will never get to
>a multi-user level. 

You can run A/UX multiuser, of course.

>The point is not that you can run multi-user OS on the PC.  The point is that
>I have some alternatives, while I percieve none on the Mac side.

Look. I know we all have our preferences, and I've learned a great deal about
how some people prefer to work from this flame wa-- er, discussion. But please,
before you sound off on the evils, inefficiencies, or demerits of the Mac,
inform yourself. Ignorant slams do nothing to convince or inform anyone and
only make the speaker look like a fool.
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