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From: abrazel@iastate.edu (Christan Paul Hamann)
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Subject: Re: FIVE GOOD REASONS WHY IBM'S ARE BETTER THAN MACS (only five?)
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 13:48:03 -0500
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In article <4kvtmu$map@prometheus.algonet.se>, "Kochanski, Wieslaw"
<wieslaw@algonet.se> wrote:

> You can talk as long you wish about Mac. 
> Keep going and make your postcards or whatever you want.
> I have Pent66/with 64Mbram/WinNt3.51.
> 
> This day when Microsoft change Nt to be a Mac (beta4.0) I will change'
> to Unix or OS/2 or ... what ever I will.
> 
> I want to feel myself free, to do with my computer what  *I want* 
> and not *a company* which made it.
> 
> What you, Mac owner can do, the alternativ OS on Mac 
> a) en new pc inside.
> 
> If I wish to learn Solaris I install solaris.
> I want to Be OS/2 guru than I install OS/2.
> 
> It takes 2h to change my computer to be a internet-server, and you
> can do it with all pentium and 486 machines. Just tell me about Mac.
> 
> Keep talking.


As with most Mac critics, you are misinformed...you can turn an SE/30
(386/20 equvalent) into an internet server in much less than one hour.

By the way, there are a few UNIX OS's available on the Mac:

AIX
A/UX
MachTen UNIX
Soon to be released Linux

I certainly can do with my computer what I want.  You should try; you may
be surprised.

Chris Hamann
abrazel@iastate.edu