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- From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
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- Subject: Re: MACS COST TOO MUCH (NOT!)
- Message-ID: <ewright.715276388@convex.convex.com>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 15:53:08 GMT
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- In <ajross.715040512@husc10> ajross@husc10.harvard.edu (Andrew Ross) writes:
-
- > THE PC IS NOT LIMITED TO 640K.
-
- >This is a .DOS. limitation.
-
- Sorry, but Ventura Publisher does not run under DOS. It runs under
- *Windows* and still has trouble because of the 640K barrier. This
- is not only a DOS limitation. Even if it was, that would be small
- consolation because *most PC programs still run under DOS, not Windows
- or OS/2.*
-
- >Most office assistants and students use PC's that much. This does not
- >make them experts. Using a machine for what it is intended to do teaches
- >you nothing about its internals.
-
- That's the whole problem. You *can't* use a PC without knowing
- a hell of a lot about the internals, just to keep it going. Of
- course I'm not a PC expert by your definition, which is "someone
- who uses, knows, and worships the Poltically Correct computer."
-
- This is equally if not more true on the
- >Mac. Please back up you attacks with evidence.
-
- >I have to get one flame in here:
-
- >IMHO, someone who suports his office's decision to pay $7000 for a
- >386-20 and $600 for a Video Accelerator and thinks all PC's are limited to
- >640k doesn't know sh*t about PC's. Please grow up.
-
- And I'll flame you right back. If you had read any of my
- previous posts, you would know that I *opposed* the decision
- to buy PCs. I have stated time and time again that the decision
- was not made by me but by a PC support expert -- in other words,
- Mr. Ross, someone like you. I realize your reading skills are
- so poor you probably won't grok this statement either but, oh well,
- hope springs eternal.
-