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- From: ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: Macs cost too much (NOT!)
- Message-ID: <92205.170150ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 15:01:50 GMT
- References: <D2150035.7sh4j4@outpost.SF-Bay.org> <ajross.711133468@husc9>
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- Organization: KFA Forschungszentrum Juelich
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- In article <5805.2a6d64c8@hayes.com>, bcoleman@hayes.com (Bill Coleman) says:
- >
-
- >We're not talking about just pushing diskettes into a drive. We're talking
- >about keeping up with all the hardware incompatabilities that are so rampant
- >on DOS machines. It takes lots of time and hassle.
- >
- I installed OS/2 and Windoze 3.1 just pushing disk in. I installed System 7
- once and System 6.07 twice also pushing disks. My Mac came with 7 and I had to
- install 6.07 due to bad perfomance and _incompatibilities_. Later I gave 7 a
- second chance `cause I needed virtual memory. And again it died with other
- apps.
-
- >You mean five times faster for some reasonably contrived example. WHO CARES??!
-
- I DO !
-
- >What is the senseless obsession with speed? Why are MIPS more important
- >than usability? Do you buy a car by looking under the hood for a 600 HP
- >engine? Sheesh!
- >
- We have a simulation program here at work that typically runs for about 2h
- for one simulation on a 33MHz 486. I don`t want to try it on a IIsi.
-
- >If, tommorrow, I dropped on your desk an infinitely fast DOS machine, you'd
- >perhaps be 5% more productive with it. If that.
-
- There are other simulation runs that would take about 2 years to complete.
- If youve have that infinitely fast DOS machine we wouldn`t need our CRAY.
-
-
- >Granted. But then, there really aren't any OS/2 applications that use
- >that consistant OS/2 support, are there?
-
- Say "that much" instead of "any" and I agree. But this _is_ changing.
-
- >> I let my boss buy me an IIsi for office and bought myself a 386 for home.
- >
- >That statement alone reveals much about your character....
- >
- Yes it`s fine! My boss has to pay me at work. So for him the Mac is the better
- deal. At home nobody pays me but I have to pay the computer. So for me the
- 386 is the better deal. Were is the problem?
-
- Michael Bode, Research Center Juelich, Germany.
-