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Article #1454Re: Prices and questions about direction of PPC hardware
From: Jim Williams
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 11:38
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 11:38
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spoelstr@fwi.uva.nl (K.D. Spoelstra) wrote: > >Hmm, they don't mean a damn thing to you, cause you don't use them, >and never will, there are people who are interested in this, people >who must invest in new hardware (we all know there are better >alternatives, but better is not always the thing needed) > I don't use Macs much anymore, but I've used both -- I do intend to stop. My point is that productivity studies are inherently bad science, and shouldn't be used. If someone has to choose between Mac and Windows then some other criteria should be used. Maybe asking the people who are going to use the machines would be a better idea. -- Sphere. Find a Linux/GNU Group for you: http://www.tiac.net/users/williams/lugnuts/ Buy Free UNIX! Microsoft is prohibited from examining any packet containing data originating on any machine which I am using. (Not that I can stop them.)
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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 Subject: Re: Prices and questions about direction of PPC hardware Date: 22 Aug 1995 11:38:07 GMT Organization: Spherical Projections Message-ID: <41cfiv$4hh@sundog.tiac.net> References: <stephenkDD9Ay3.H7D@netcom.com> <danpop.808786740@rscernix> <docjoe-1808952118480001@ip198.wilmington.de.interramp.com> <413jjl$jhs@sundog.tiac.net> <41ahnp$a2t@nntp5.u.washington.edu> <41baff$cg2@sundog.tiac.net> <41c2aj$125@ow67.fwi.uva.nl> 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)