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Article #2877Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Damir Smitlener
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 01:38
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 01:38
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David Kurtz wrote: > > In article <30FC1F64.20C8CFD2@mindspring.com>, Damir Smitlener > <damir@mindspring.com> wrote: > > >All good points, except that there _Are_ real wordprocessors for linux. > >There are even, in fact, more real spreadsheets for linux (2) than there > >are for PMacs(1). > > Aw come on! Excel, as bad as it is, counts as a real spreadsheet. > > The Mac has > 1. ClarisWorks > 2. Excel Even counting ClarisWorks, there are still at least 2 more full-functioned spreadsheets for linux. I am not trying to say that the selection of "real" software is as great as the selection of the same for MacOS because clearly it isn't. However, the argument that has always been made by MacAdvocates is that you only need a couple of serious entries in any given software category. If that argument is valid in the Mac vs PC sense, then it is equally valid in the Linux vs Mac sense. The most commonly used productivity software are spreadsheets and wordprocessors, and both are available in very high quality for linux. -- Damir Smitlener damir@mindspring.com aka Little Caesar gt7092d@prism.gatech.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!news.mindspring.com!usenet From: Damir Smitlener <damir@mindspring.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....??? Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 20:38:42 -0500 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Message-ID: <30FDA4A2.C6D71C4@mindspring.com> References: <4dccju$ctv@murrow.corp.sgi.com> <4deq6i$bgd@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <30FC1F64.20C8CFD2@mindspring.com> <david-1601961638530001@s245_7.resnet.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: damir.mindspring.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b5 (X11; I; Linux 1.2.13 i586)