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

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From: Dan Pop
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
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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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From: danpop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop)
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Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
Date: 31 Mar 96 21:37:16 GMT
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