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

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From: Damir Smitlener
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 16:44
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Martin Nisshagen wrote:
> 
> Anthony D. Tribelli wrote:
> 
> > Apple, IMHO, is really a software company that incidentally makes hardware
> > in order to sell the software. It was not always this way, but it is now.
> 
> I see it the rather opposite way. Apples big income is from selling Mac's
> and not it's Claris division (the software company). And in most computers
> the hardware is much more expensive than the OS.

I'm quite sure the software he is talking about is MacOS, in which case he's
mostly right.


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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,alt.2600
Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 11:44:44 -0500
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