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In article <43js8l$61@feenix.metronet.com>, dcorn@metronet.com (David
Corn) wrote:

> Summers@Ethyl-the-Frog.ARC.NASA.gov (David P. Summers) wrote:
> 
> >In article <43g61s$4lh@feenix.metronet.com>, dcorn@metronet.com (David
> >Corn) wrote:
> >> 12M on a PC will go further than 12M on a Mac.  
> >
> >That is debatable.
> 
> Have you run Win95?  
> 

<Microsoft>

> >A straw man that is off subject.  I've never claimed you needed VM to 
> >run with 12 Megs.  I get along fine without out it.
> 
> With a PowerMac?  I'm talking about a PowerMac, and I'm more than
> willing to concede there's a big difference between the two.  Launch
> Excel with VM turned off on that 12M PowerMac...and tell me why it
> can't even -load-.  

<Microsoft> Excel

> 
> >
> >Doing what?  If you are doing spreadsheets, wordprocessing, figure
> >presentation, etc. It works just fine. Maybe someone doing video
> 
> You don't use Excel 5.0 professionally, do you?  A IIci is unbearably
> slow for all but the simplest of tasks.  Progress moves onward, and
> the IIci is left in the dust.
> 

<Microsoft> Excel 5.0

> >editing or something needs more, but for the average user a Mac
> >offers a greater period of usefullness because it isn't forced
> >into obsolesence by lack of support.  I'm reminded of a friend who
> >had someone claim they needed a pentium to do wordprocessing.
> 
> If you're happy with ClarisWorks 1.0 or so for fast text editing, more
> power to you.  However, the latest software from MS requires a modern
> Mac to run it

<Microsoft>

Does everyone see the pattern? Boycott Microsoft.