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In article <629@hepburn.UUCP> jerry@hepburn.UUCP (Jerry Shekhel) writes:
>In article <1160@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM> ngg@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM (Norman Goodger) writes:
>>
>> I can double-click on a document which opens the application and opens
>> the document ready for whatever processing the application does. I can
>> use command keys to intiate actions in single strokes that depending
>> on the PC interface, usually requires several keystrokes (arrow keys)
>> to locate the command and execute it there are probably others as well
>> that the interface on the Macintosh allows that speed up certain
>> operations on the Mac over its PC counterparts. And perhaps some vice-versa,
>> though I think this rare..
>>
>
>Why do all the articles from Mac users sound like they were posted
>in 1984?  Why can't you guys accept the fact that there are things like
>Microsoft Windows and OS/2 Presentation Manager -- a real GUI to which
>most applications have been ported or are about to be ported?.  With OS/2
>you also get a real operating system, something available only to the
>highest-end Macs (A/UX or whatever -- BTW, does A/UX have the Mac interface?).
>Anyway, why can't you people see that the PC world has already evolved
>beyond plain MSDOS, and is changing rapidly?
>
>>-- 
>>Norm Goodger				SysOp - MacInfo BBS @415-795-8862
>>
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Sure, I'll admit that Windows and OS/2 w/PM exists.  However, I think
you're very wrong about the number of applications available for them.
Windows are quite a few, but nowhere near a decent ratio to standard
DOS applications, and as for the number of OS/2 applications out there,
don't make me laugh.  They just don't exist.  Why?  BEcuase there's been
no demand, especially since OS/2 really isn't finished enough to
be pratical for the common user.  Also, don't beleive the myth that
OS/2 will magically begin to work inside of 2 megs of memory.  The
sucker is just too big, and contains too much compiled code to
be practical anywhere inside of 4 megs.  Oh sure, you may be able
to get it up and running in three megs.  But what can you do with it?
Run Sidekick?

I will agree that OS/2 is very robust on paper.  But since when
is Windows running under DOS a "real operation system", by your
standards?  And why isn't the Mac?  And just what is the Windows'
user's upgrade path?

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