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Article #26409Re: Mac/Sun/..., windows, mice, ... - YAWN
From: Charles L Ditzel
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 1988 07:52
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 1988 07:52
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> barnett@steinmetz.ge.com (Bruce G. Barnett) writes: > The MacOS is very ambitious, and very impressive. Coming from a > no-mouse PC. the MacOS is light-years ahead. > > But how will it be perceived by the Unix professionals and the power > users? > > The people with Suns, Apollos, HP's, Vaxes, Symbolics, TI, etc. at work. > I think the Mac II is still a *long* way from a Sun or an Apollo....why? look no further than a networking windowing system...CASE tools abound on the sun (this is hardly the Mac II's strong point)...the overall user interface on the Sun is better in so far as flexibility is concerned....as for desktop interfaces...wait...this will be resolved in the next 3 or so weeks .... (according to the trade rags)...incidentally the *TOOLS* that Sun provides makes it NO CONTEST...(CGI, 2d-3d CORE, SunView libraries, NeWS/X11, SunTools, source code to SunTools, ... in addition when the new 386 rolls out MS-DOS compatibility will be another given...
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!benoni From: benoni@ssc-vax.UUCP (Charles L Ditzel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.windows.misc Subject: Re: Mac/Sun/..., windows, mice, ... - YAWN Message-ID: <1768@ssc-vax.UUCP> Date: 16 Mar 88 07:52:06 GMT References: <1744@ssc-vax.UUCP> <1064@its63b.ed.ac.uk> <117@bodo.UUCP> <8310@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Organization: Boeing Aerospace Corp., Seattle WA Lines: 19 Keywords: Mac, Sun, mice, windows, multitasking, ..., ...