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- From: casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik)
- Subject: Re: SPARCClassic vs. 486
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.105032.8414@fwi.uva.nl>
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- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 10:50:32 GMT
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- lupe@ukw.uucp (Lupe Christoph) writes:
-
- >lfm@pgroup.com (Larry Meadows) writes:
-
- >>I agree that the prices are competitive between sparc and 486 systems,
- >>but I think the dearth of user-level software is still a problem. Does
- >>anyone have info on cost of things like Lotus, Microsoft Word (if available),
- >>accounting software, etc. for sparcs vs. PCs.
-
- >Microsoft will only implement Word et al for Unix over Bill Gates' dead
- >body. (Now, *there* is an invitation...)
-
- >>Of course, Macs are better anyway :-).
-
- >I had to sysadmin one once. Made me go freelance ;-) Actually I found
- >the user interface as contrived as they go. No drag and drop (I believe
- >they added this in V7?). You double click a document and the corresponding
- >program is started. You double click another one of the same type and you
- >get an error message!
-
- Using a MicroSoft program, no doubt. A program can be told to open another
- document by double-clicking the document. But only if the program follows
- the guidelines for doing so. MicroSoft is probably the worst offender
- when it comes to following Mac guidelines. None of their programs
- ever survived a change to MacOS or Mac hardware that shouldn't have been
- noticed by a conforming program.
-
- But you're right, Macs (or PCs in general) are a pain.
-
- Casper
-