Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???

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From: Philip Machanick
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 1995 13:38

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In article <42ds6l$69p@sloth.swcp.com>, "Harlan W. Stockman"
<hwstock@swcp.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the insight, Chilton.  Could you tell me specifically what 
> company you work for?  I'd like to make sure we never buy any of the apps 
> you create, since you assure us they will be inferior for this inferior 
> OS.  Of course, we really don't need to, since there are so many
> free MS TCP/IP apps and shareware apps that have (for years) overcome the 
> hurdles you are so valiantly struggling against.  However, I think it is 
> important to recommend your honesty to your CEO, so he can appreciate your 
> altruistic bent in ignoring the OS that commands about 90% of the market.

You are being sarcastic, right? His views seem pretty much echoed in my
experience that in most areas Mac internet tools are better and appear
sooner than PC equivalents.

In any case, I read somewhere that the Mac share of the internet market
was much higher than 10% (was it 30%?).
-- 
Philip Machanick             Department of Computer Science
University of the Witwatersrand,   2050 Wits,  South Africa
phone 27(11)716-3309                     fax 27(11)339-7965
http://www.cs.wits.ac.za/~philip/       philip@cs.wits.ac.za

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From: philip@cs.wits.ac.za (Philip Machanick)
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: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
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Date: 7 Sep 1995 13:38:03 GMT
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