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From: mithomas@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Michael Thomas Niehaus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac vs. PC -- Shut Up Already!
Summary: (Stole the subject from a comp.sys.ibm.pc article.)
Message-ID: <10560@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
Date: 12 Jan 90 02:34:47 GMT
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Reply-To: mithomas@bsu-cs.UUCP (Michael Thomas Niehaus)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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While we are on this subject, maybe someone can explain this phenomenon:

I am the student rep for Apple on campus, and many people know this.  However
this does not stop me from dropping in the IBM PC lab to use a model 30-286.
No one has ever made any comments to me about this.

The student rep for IBM on campus would occasionally be seen using a Mac.
This caused quite a bit of a stir (enough that he stopped using Macs in
public places) from the people around campus.

Now, I would hope that people aren't so pig-headed that they think that you
can use one and only one machine (although I have seen some people on the
net that come close to this).  But it seems that Mac users are more likely
to understand another Mac user using an IBM, but the opposite is not true.
Why is this so?

If there was any logic behind this at all, these same people would complain
when I sit down at the VT320 that I am using right now to log onto our
Unix or VMS or MVS systems.  But they don't.

Which of these deductions do you come to:

1.  Mac systems cannot meet the necessary requirements, forcing me to use
    other systems.
2.  Every system has its strong points.

Or if you were an IBM user:

1.  An IBM PC is all I will ever need to do everything that I want.
2.  Some systems don't do certain things very well.

-Michael

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Michael Niehaus        UUCP: <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!mithomas
Apple Student Rep      ARPA:  mithomas@bsu-cs.bsu.edu
Ball State University  AppleLink: ST0374 (from UUCP: st0374@applelink.apple.com)