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- From: nateh@quake.sylmar.ca.us (Nate Hawthorn)
- Subject: Apple
- Message-ID: <XLT3TB3w165w@quake.sylmar.ca.us>
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- Organization: Quake Public Access, Sylmar CA
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 13:21:08 GMT
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- Hey Apple,
-
- I saw that commercial on TV where there are two guys trying to
- install "WINDOWS" on their PC in order to make it "MORE PRODUCTIVE".
-
- CONGRADULATIONS!!!
-
- You guys finally started expressing "out loud" what I (and others)
- have been trying to tell these PC guys for quite a while now.
-
- You think they will listen?
-
- I doubt it, because for them to realize what yo uare talking about
- they need to have bought a PC already and also have gone through
- the HELL that a PC gives you.
-
- At that point, they have spent MANY hours and read MANY books figuring
- the stupid PC out, and WON'T LISTEN because they will have to admit to
- being stupid.
-
- Anyway, the commercials are good, and I am glad you are running them just
- to rub it in anyway!
-
- It's too bad that when you go to a store, they would rather sell you a PC
- instead of a Mac because of the $$ PROFIT MARGIN $$ on the CLONER PC's
- that are out there. It really pisses me off when I go in and the guy
- tells me how good the "386 System" is and won't even show me the Mac
- that's on the other table.
-
- Anyway, there's another thing that is interesting with the PC:
-
- As you know, the PC ispatched over and over a million times to get it to
- be like NEWER TECHNOLOGY, such as WINDOWS is just a PATCH FOR DOS.
-
- You will notice that the programs for the PC are getting larger and
- larger. I mean BIG, like 4 MEGS and up.
-
- Mac programs are getting larger, but not that much!
-
- The reason:
-
- They have to write / include all their OWN CODE for what we call the
- "ToolBox" (ROM) every time they write something!
-
- That's the joke!
-
- And what's worse is that since each program carries it's own code,
- then each programmer must DEBUG his code. This leads to some
- packages becomming BUGGY, and these poor guys can never find
- out whats wrong (besides that, they are always tied up answering the
- service phone lines!).
-
- Anyway, I give up with PC people. I figure after they all discover that
- they still don't hhave a Mac after installing Windows, they MIGHT just
- get a brain and get a Mac. If not, that's their problem.
-
- Thanks for a fine computer, and trying to make life BETTER and more
- productive (instead of throwing OLD TECHNOLOGY at us and trying to tell
- us it's great) !!
-
- Nate...
-