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In article <30ED06B8.2D83@mts.se>, Martin Nisshagen  <martin@mts.se> wrote:
>Chad Irby wrote:
>
>> The installed base of Macs has historically grown *faster* than the
>> increase in market share, or absolute sales numbers.  Macs tend to stay
>> in service *much* longer than Wintel boxes.  A 1987-era Mac II (or a Plus
>> or an SE) can run System 7.5 and most modern software.  A 1987-era Wintel
>> box is good for use as a fax server or a small hamster cage.
>
>And an interpretation of that fact could be that the OS on the Mac still
>isn't much better than it was in '87. They have a long way to even come 
>close to some decent OSes like OS/2, NT, Unix, BeOS etc. And if they ever 
>will, I'm quite sure that You won't be able to run it on your old Mac II.

Only if your definition of better is "requires faster hardware." And
when one compares the hardware requirements of 7.5 to those of Win 95,
one realizes very quickly how inadequate a definition that proves to be,
since 7.5 is clearly the superior OS even though 95 barely runs on a
486 with 8 megs.

>
>-- 
>Martin Nisshagen
>MTS Technology, Sweden
>martin@mts.se (MIME 1.0)

-Dave