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- From: gts@UCLINK.BERKELEY.EDU (Greg Small)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
- Subject: Re: ?? DOS PC connection to Apple print device ??
- Message-ID: <48513.gts@uclink.Berkeley.EDU>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 21:28:30 GMT
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- In Message 26 Jan 93 14:45:24 Patrick S Hart <phart@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> writes:
- >>In article <2529@blue.cis.pitt.edu> daryl+@pitt.edu (Daryl P Sawders) writes:
- >>When is a PC going to be as easy to net as a MAC ?-}
- >Probally never - at least not free as the net stuff for the Mac is. You can
- >put the blame on Gates and fat-cat managers for this boon-doggle.
-
- The Mac is a closed architecture controlled by an aggressive, monolithic
- vendor (Apple). This has advantages as did IBM's mainframe dominance. The
- advantage is consistency, the cost is price. I think of the Macintosh as
- the Volvo of workstations - costs more but everything is standard :-).
-
- The PC is a open architecture. A PC can be configured in hundreds of
- different ways. Neither IBM nor Microsoft controls the PC architecture.
- This too has its advantages - flexibility and price competition. The cost
- is complexity. I think of the PC as a pickup truck - you can order it just
- about anyway you want :-).
-
- Neither is best (or holier). Both fit different markets best.
-
- Greg Small 1-510-642-5979
- Personal Computer Networking & Communications gts@uclink.Berkeley.EDU
- Workstation Software Support Group, IST/WSS 216 Evans Hall
- University of California, Berkeley, Ca 94720 1-510-643-5385 (Fax)
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