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- From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
- Subject: Re: Where the mac really wins
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- References: <1ftmu0INN1jk@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1992Dec6.2 <ibhan.723703217@husc10>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 20:35:58 GMT
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- In article <ibhan.723703217@husc10> ibhan@husc10.harvard.edu (Ishir Bhan) writes:
- >bbrown@infonode.ingr.com (Bailey Brown) writes:
- >
- >>an780@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Travis Grundke) writes:
- >
- >>The last Mac I used was a IIci. The hardware was not Fisher Price,
- >>but the mentality behind the machine and OS was Fisher Price and
- >>Dr. Montessori.
- >
- >The IIci is moving towards the low-end now. But how is it "Fisher Price"?
-
- >That's why Apple is the number one PC company now, eh? You can get a 16
- >Mhz Mac for under $1000 with 4 Mb RAM, SCSI, 8-bit sound input and output,
- >and a 40 MB HD.
-
- Oooooo! You forgot to add the cost of the keyboard. Its the one with
- the porthole, right?
-
- >You make all these statements about NT. First of all, NT
- >doesn't seem to be anywhere right now. Secondly, the Mac OS will have
- >progressed quite a bit by then, and Pink looks like it'll be superior to
- >NT. How many users need the features of NT anyway?
-
- Ummm System 7 will still be crawling around second quarter 93 I'll
- bet... Do you have the Pink beta CD ROM yet, let alone hardware to
- run it on? Besides the hardware will still be proprietary..
-
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