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

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From: Candide
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 01:48
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In article <danpop.828308236@rscernix>, danpop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop) wrote:

> 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


 If you want quotes, take a look in some other threads within this group.
You know what they say, "Variety,  is the spice of life."
BTW, yes "someone is bashing MacOS for its lack of a CLI." and, yes
"...the MacOS GUI is better than any CLI."

  Bravo, Dan! Today you got 2 out of 2 CORRECT!

Candide

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"Eritis sicut Deus, scientes bonum et malum"  Goethe
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From: toms4@soho.ios.com (Candide)
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: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 17:48:57 -0800
Organization: Me, Myself & I Inc.
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