Re: JUST REMEMBER WHY WINDOWS WAS CREATED!!!!!!!!!

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From: Dave Glue
Date: Sat, 02 Sep 1995 01:27

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Summers@Ethyl-the-Frog.arc.nasa.gov (David P. Summers) wrote:

>In article <425sts$217@steel.interlog.com>, daveacg@interlog.com (Dave
>Glue) wrote:
>> >The really ironic thing, is that by say that coming out with a Mac
>> >like interface is such a great thing, they are saying that before
>> >Windows 95 people should have been buying Macs.
>> 
>> No.  They were 2-3 times as expensive.

>Not always.  I bought my Quadra 610 a year and a half ago at a price
>comparable to 486 machines.  Besides, if the hype about windows is
>to be believed, then such computers are a step beyond all other
>computers.  (Which I guess is true at least for the Mac since I
>was willing to pay more for a decent OS when I bought my Plus).

We're talking over 2 years ago, and even a year and a half ago Macs
were not that close.  Perhaps you have a liberal meaning to the term
"comparable", or were comparing against IBM and Compaq machines, which
were also incredibly overpriced in that time.

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Subject: Re: JUST REMEMBER WHY WINDOWS WAS CREATED!!!!!!!!!
Date: Sat, 02 Sep 1995 01:27:21 GMT
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