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- From: ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: MACS COST TOO MUCH (NOT!)
- Message-ID: <92240.131648ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 11:16:48 GMT
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- In article <ewright.714845483@convex.convex.com>, ewright@convex.com (Edward V.
- Wright) says:
- >I have bought (or leased) four computers in my life: a Radio Shack TRS-80,
- >an Osborne 1, an Atari ST, and a Macintosh IIsi. All came with operating
- >systems. I'll repeat, no real computer company sells a machine without an
- >operating system, anymore than a reliable car dealer sells a car without an
- >engine.
- >
- And I bet on the TRS-80 you used the OS that came from the computer company.
- Not NEWDOS nor LDOS nor CP/M which was the standard OS for microcomputers at
- that time.
-
- >that come standard with the Macintosh, you will soon find that you
- >paid more for your PC clone than you would have for a Mac. You can't
- >deny that. Your only response is, "Well, I don't reall need a fast
- >SCSI drive, sound input, sound output, support for multiple monitors
- >at different resolutions and color depths on a common desktop, foreign-
- >language script support, decent graphics software, a good color monitor,
- >the ability to use megabytes, even gigabytes of RAM without limitation....)
-
- The machine I referred to in my previous posting had SCSI and a trinitron
- monitor. Sound I/O would not blow up the price very much and before I would buy
- some small monitors I would buy one 19" or 21" monitor, but this point is for
- you. But gigabytes of RAM ??? Let me quote from my IIsi manual:
- "Speicher: 3MB RAM, erweiterbar auf 17MB" which means the maximum is 0.017GB.
- That sure _is_ gigabytes but not very many of them :-)
-
- Michael Bode.
-