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Re: Re^2: Something else you can't do on the Mac

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From: Wayne Wood
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 1990 05:06
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In article <519@tci.bell-atl.com> kempf@tci.bell-atl.com (Cory Kempf) writes:
>
>That is true... the mac doesn't normally have a command line
>interface.  If you want one, it is available.  Say Em-Pee-Double-you.
>Say "Open <filename>"
>

say VERY EXPENSIVE...

>
>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.  
>

if you are going to make comparisons... there is no longer a 32MB size
limit on the disk, a 640kB limit on RAM, or only 16 bit processors...

in spite of these changes to the IBM/CLONES... you are still living a decade
behind... do some research.

we are working at improving our machine... yours is still a piece of shit.

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From: woody@eos.UUCP (Wayne Wood)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Re^2: Something else you can't do on the Mac
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Date: 3 Jan 90 05:06:53 GMT
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