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Article #8267Re: A sad day...
From: Tim Campbell
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1991 18:14
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1991 18:14
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>>I hope the hell Apple doesn't win this. Who uses Macs anyway?? {:-<
>>People that are afraid of computers!!
>>
>
> No, people who like using microprocessors without segmentation.
> People who are tired of lousy 16-bit SVGA and want 24-bit. People who like
> to pay less than $50/meg for 80ns SIMMS. People who liek doing more than
> Windows will do even now.
>
>
> Bryon Lape
--
This is probably not a real strong argument in favor of Macs.... after all,
24-bit megapel displays are certainly NOT standard on your typical Mac - and
in fairness, they are available on PCs - the use of the hardware is highly
dependent on the needs of the purchaser. I haven't noticed a high resolution
graphics display controller with a geometry generator optimized toward
3-D vector performance available on a Mac either - but that doesn't stop
anyone from making nice presentation graphics on it.
As for "doing more than Windows will do" - this is a pretty vague statement.
I'm confident that there are more specialized hardware options and software
programs available for PC's then there are for Macs. This is simply the
nature of the "open-ness" of the architecture. So what exactly is it
that you can "do more" of?
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