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From: gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Something else you can't do on
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Date: 10 Jan 90 17:39:36 GMT
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/* Written  9:13 am  Jan  8, 1990 by ohrnb@edstip.EDS.COM in p.cs.uiuc.edu:comp.sys.mac */
> Look at it this way:
> 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.  

Finder, Multifinder, A/UX, Minix (in a few months), Smalltalk-80 from
Parcplace (too large to run on 1Mb machines Peecess, but runs on ALL
macintoshes), MacApp, TI Explorer environment, etc...

Conclusion:  The environments for the macintoshes are much richer and
much more diverse.  The PC environments are all clones of each other,
just like the PC itself.