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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!goliath.apana.org.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!news1.sunbelt.net!dial-3.r2.gastbo.infoave.net!user From: mele@goldstag.com (Melvin C. Etheridge) Newsgroups: alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc,alt.binaries.warez.mac,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.acorn.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.machten,comp.unix.pc-clone.16bit,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.shell,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.user-friendly Subject: Re: FIVE GOOD REASONS WHY IBM'S ARE BETTER THAN MACS (only five?) Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 06:50:03 -0400 Organization: SunBelt.Net INTERNET Access Lines: 63 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <mele-2404960650040001@dial-3.r2.gastbo.infoave.net> References: <Cyclone-0504961737500001@dial24.trip.net> <31678d59.1170056@nntp.ix.netcom.com> <4k8hkj$o0u@cloner3.netcom.com> <sonikd-0804960027040001@cmh-p062.infinet.com> <avi-0904962303220001@cyber128.cyberspc.mb.ca> <316c1d48.41833268@nntp.ix.netcom.com> <John_Warwick-1004962314430001@news.mindlink.net> <4kq463$7a4@informer1.cis.mcmaster.ca> <Pine.A32.3.91.960417014401.76675F-100000@green.weeg.uiowa.edu> <chrisc-1904961301260001@ppp-69.cet.com> <4lccdm$8pf@janis.virago.org.au> <hugo-2204961630240001@hit man.hitproducts.be> Reply-To: hugo@hitproducts.be NNTP-Posting-Host: dial-3.r2.gastbo.infoave.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc:35424 alt.binaries.warez.mac:3562 comp.os.linux.advocacy:47073 comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy:125420 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:23111 comp.os.msdos.misc:54159 comp.os.os2.advocacy:196648 comp.sys.acorn.advocacy:8742 comp.sys.mac.advocacy:101950 comp.sys.next.advocacy:35041 comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy:3102 comp.unix.advocacy:19998 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:18126 comp.unix.bsd.misc:844 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3364 comp.unix.machten:2341 comp.unix.pc-clo ne.16bit:734 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:9292 comp.unix.shell:32048 comp.unix.solaris:67036 comp.unix.user-friendly:3675 In article <hugo-2204961630240001@hitman.hitproducts.be>, hugo@hitproducts.be (Hugo Du Bois) wrote: <Stuff Deleted> > > I could go on - but i won't. I think I have made my point, but the Mac is > *not* suited to the Mission Critical or heavy usage office environment. > (Neither is the PC, but it *is* a little better). > > It is obvious that you are a real PC minded person, no harm there, but you > got the whole idea wrong. You think that a PC and everything around it is > a code to live by, not true, a computer is a tool that should adapt to the > user. A Mac user does not think of himself to be amongst an army of Mac > users, but thinks of himself as an individual, he and his mac. That's all. > > > While I support macs and Pc's and consider myself proficient in > both (Windows has it's problems too - *I KNOW*) - at both the > Hardware and software levels, My preferred Operating Systems at > home? : > > SPARC Solaris and Linux. > My home is Apple free and Microsoft free. > > See? My home is Microsoft free and Intel free, we are not that different. > > Stick with the CLI, and forget about the GUI concept, it'll be better for you. > You are a car mechanic, not a driver. You listen to music with an oscilloscope. > We mac users, enjoy the music and don't ask what the cd's speed is nor the > error correction method used, or how to improve the speed... > > Macintosh, the features of Windows 95 since 1984. I just had to reply to this....as I am a "mechanic" and a "driver"! I have a AST 486/100 with win95 that I use at the office that I'm going to use as a backup mail/dns server and our primary server is a WGS PPC 9150 running MachTen.... You see I like to have the best of both worlds....the Mac running MachTen allows me to have a (reasonably) highend ISP/WEB server OS..i.e. UNIX and the MACOS at my figertips.... I also use a Pentium system running Windows NT. And I have a PPC 7500 at home....I love to do all my "mechanic work" and work and when I get home I just want to sit down and "DRIVE!". Some people just DO NOT get it that there are different machines for different things and personal preferences....However I DO PREFER my PPC and MACOS.. Just love you analagy, -- Melvin C. Etheridge Operations Mngr&Webmaster, Gold Stag Communications, Inc. http://www.goldstag.com http://www.artpublishers.com