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

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#2781

From: Elvis
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 21:54

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Edward Dodge (edodge@teleport.com) wrote:

[snip]

: 1)  The OS of the Mac from '87 is still easier to use & more reliable than
: Win95.

The MacOS is very intuitive.  Albeit, simple in function (but powerful.)

: 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.

And that's about it.  I can get Linux running on 4 megs of RAM too.

: 4)  Nobody who uses a home computer for "home computing" uses OS/w,  NT, 
: UNiX,  or BeVaporware.

So I guess my Linux box I am using this on doesn't count?  Noo 
wait...that's not real Unix is it?  Guess I'll switch to BSDi <sigh>

: Thankyou,

: Edward

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