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Article #2739Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Edward Dodge
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 23:51
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 23:51
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In article <30ED06B8.2D83@mts.se>, Martin Nisshagen <martin@mts.se> wrote: <snip> > 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. > > -- > Martin Nisshagen > MTS Technology, Sweden > martin@mts.se (MIME 1.0) Some facts you have chosen to ignore: 1) The OS of the Mac from '87 is still easier to use & more reliable than Win95. 2) The dialogue boxes that pop up in the Mac OS do not look like they were written by Chinese graduate students, unlike OS/who? 3) Mac OS runs fine on 4MB of RAM on practically any Mac-computer while WinNT needs pretty hefty hardware and beaucoup de memorie. 4) Nobody who uses a home computer for "home computing" uses OS/w, NT, UNiX, or BeVaporware. Thankyou, Edward
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!ip-pdx04-18.teleport.com!user From: edodge@teleport.com (Edward Dodge) 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....??? Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 20:51:12 -0300 Organization: Teleport - Portland's Public Access (503) 220-1016 Message-ID: <edodge-1201962051120001@ip-pdx04-18.teleport.com> References: <4cf46j$1ev4@hopi.gate.net> <30ED06B8.2D83@mts.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: ip-pdx04-18.teleport.com