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Article #3542Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Dan Pop
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 21:37
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 21:37
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In <handleym-3003961257190001@a17-202-32-93.apple.com> handleym@apple.com (Maynard Handley) writes: >Not that you are saying such, but I would just like to point out here that >most non-mac users seem convinced that you cannot run a mac using a CLI, >even though the fact that this si wrong is pointed out every week on these >groups. There are plenty of mac programmers, at Apple as well as >elswehere, that largely live in the CLI of MPW. These people are perfectly >aware that a CLI is a useful tool for what they do and they use it. >Most of the people criticizing macs for not having a CLI do that same sort >of work and they would look substantially less foolish if, before >critizing the lack of CLI, they were to actually take a look at MPW. I have yet to see someone bashing MacOS for its lack of a CLI. Could you back your claim with some quotes? What I do see is ignorant Mac bigots who claim that the MacOS GUI is better than any CLI. Dan -- Dan Pop CERN, CN Division Email: danpop@mail.cern.ch Mail: CERN - PPE, Bat. 31 R-004, CH-1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!rcp6.elan.af.mil!rscernix!danpop From: danpop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop) 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: 31 Mar 96 21:37:16 GMT Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics Message-ID: <danpop.828308236@rscernix> References: <nevin-0602962253080001@150.135.1.79> <danpop.826855661@rscernix> <4imn4l$glo@New <dke-2203960645550001@adnline48.adnc.com> <kevinbDp2t9D.KMr@netcom.com> <handleym-3003961257190001@a17-202-32-93.apple.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ues5.cern.ch X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #7 (NOV)