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- From: SLANG@WAIKATO.AC.NZ (Steve Lang)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
- Subject: Re: ?? DOS PC connection to Apple print device ??
- Message-ID: <9301262004.aa29403@louie.udel.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 01:04:00 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
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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.
-
- When is the Mac going to give you the ability to control what other networked
- Mac's can and can't do. I assure you, as soon as you start comming across
- problems like these, then they are defiantely NOT any easier to network than a
- PC.
-
- >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.
-
- And interoperability with other machines.
-
- Whilst this can be acheived, and we do it, it adds even more cost. The Mac's
- built in Networking in a large environment is definately NOT free.
-
- >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.
-
- Agreed.
-