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- From: eric.larson@f620.n2605.z1.ieee.org (eric larson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Where the mac really wins
- Message-ID: <19868.2B322FD1@zeus.ieee.org>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 02:27:03 GMT
- Sender: news
- Organization: FidoNet node 1:2605/620 - Shockwave Rid, Freehold NJ
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- # Its kinda ironic because I've had mail in the last few days saying
- # how Microsoft intentionally sabotages Mac software so Windows will
- # sell. Yeah right. So why Word and Excel?
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- Then Howcum Mac Word doesn't have the complete WFW feature set? Or Howcum Mac
- QuickBasic doesn't hvae the complete MS-DOS QuickBASIC feature set? Or Howcum
- Microsoft is advertising so heavily in Mac magazines for Mac programmers to
- attend it's Windows programming seminars?
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- Finally, and this is the one I get the biggest charge out of - take a look at
- the ads for the Mac version of Word - notice how the screen shots all use the
- MS Windows color scheme, which is utterly alien to the Mac? Don't you think
- there is a reason for this??????
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- # Probably the Mac. But who knows what was available back in the
- # days of Windows 1? Who cares anyway? Back then 123 beat the heck
- # out of Excel on the Mac 512s and Pluses that were prevalent at
- # the time
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- WRONG. Many reviews at that time clearly identified Excel on the Mac as being
- far superior to 123. Hell, 123 had TERRIBLE output quality, limited to screen
- resolution, while Excel produces fantastic vector output that was scalable to
- any quality printer that you could get. I blew many a manager's socks off with
- slides generated from Excel that he couldn't match without paying $300 a pop
- at Genigraphics to duplicate.
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- # You could have larger sheets and faster recalcs than
- # the Macs could handle on an XT.
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- Yeah, right. An XT with 640K RAM could have a larger spreadsheet than a Mac
- Plus with 4 MB of RAM. Or a spreadsheet without partial recalc could
- outperform one on a machine with 4 times the CPU speed, 8 times the RAM, and
- running a spreadsheet that supports partial recalc.
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- eric larson - Internet: eric.larson@f620.n2605.z1.ieee.org
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