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Article #1338Re: Ask yourself these before you choosing a 32bit OS...
From: Jim Williams
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 1995 14:28
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 1995 14:28
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rayvd@sierra.net (Ray Van Dolson) wrote: > >An OS doing something first doesn't necessarily mean it does it better now. >Win95/NT and even OS/2 are far superior operating systems to the MacOS System >7.5 even if Mac pioneered many of the technologies.. PC OS vendors simply >took some of the Mac's best points and improved upon them! Now we'll see if >the Mac can keep up (quality wise if not quantiy-wise) with Copland. They took some of the most saleable points. This may or may not be the best points. I've never seen a big company provide a feature or quality because it was better -- only because it would sell better. Small companies do sometimes actually try to provide the best thing rather than the best selling thing. It seems to have something to do with not having enough money to hire marketing managers and those bean counter people... -- Sphere. Find a Linux/GNU Group for you: http://www.tiac.net/users/williams/lugnuts/ Buy Free UNIX!
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sundog.tiac.net!usenet From: Jim Williams <williams@tiac.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy Subject: Re: Ask yourself these before you choosing a 32bit OS... Date: 20 Aug 1995 14:28:13 GMT Organization: Spherical Projections Message-ID: <417gpt$ndh@sundog.tiac.net> References: <3vh2hc$9dd@falcon.ccs.uwo.ca> <40fm22$3i8@ns.oar.net> <DDBFwE.8Kw@wombat.hanse.de> <40vh4u$2ug@ns.oar.net> <4102tgINNkuf@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> <edodge-1708952306420001@ip-pdx7-23.teleport.com> <41353n$80j@acmex.gatech.edu> <docjoe-1808952058520001@ip198.wilmington.de.interramp.com> <415knt$al0@steel.interlog.com> <415olt$d6@jobes.sierra.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: elision.tiac.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Windows; I; 16bit)