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- From: adm@neuro.duke.edu (Alan Magid)
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.wpwin-l
- Subject: Re: Want to migrate from WP4Mac to WP4Win
- Keywords: mac, migrate
- Message-ID: <5134@news.duke.edu>
- Date: 5 Sep 92 11:59:36 GMT
- References: <sffcu.12@cuais01.cc.columbia.edu>
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- In article <sffcu.12@cuais01.cc.columbia.edu> sffcu@cuais01.cc.columbia.edu (Stew Feuerstein) writes:
- >
- > My sister-in-law has been a Word Perfect user on a Mac + and SE for about
- >four years. Her hardware is fading away and she is interested in replacing
- >the Macs with PCs running Windows. She is not what I would call a power
- >user
- >[text deleted]
- > -Stew
-
- Windows/PC is NOT MacOS on a different platform. My advice is replace
- aging Mac with one of the new 'low-price' Mac systems due out in october.
- She will preserve her software investment, and more importantly, her
- cognitive investment in using the machine to accomplish her work. IMHO
- Windows is a cumbersome, non-intuitive 'GUI' sitting on top of an
- obscure obsolete OS (MS-DOS).
- -Alan
- Disclaimer: One man's opinion only. I have no commercial ties to
- companies or products mentioned. Flames: John Sculley & Bill Gates
-