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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!news.cais.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sover.net!pm0a13.bratt.sover.net!user From: jinx6568@sover.net (Chris Johnson) Newsgroups: alt.binaries.warez.mac,alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc,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: The PC Mac Holy war Date: Wed, 08 May 1996 13:58:47 -0400 Organization: Airwindows Lines: 24 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <jinx6568-0805961358470001@pm0a13.bratt.sover.net> References: <---0405961742330001@dyna-37.net7b.io.org> <david-0705960551500001@ts1dl40.escape.ca> <318F5C58.4BBF@rss.dl.nec.com> <4mo939$h3@dfw-ixnews1.ix.netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pm0a5.bratt.sover.net X-Newsreader: Yet Another NewsWatcher 2.2.0b4 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.binaries.warez.mac:4154 alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc:38725 comp.os.linux.advocacy:48565 comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy:127484 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:24117 comp.os.msdos.misc:55012 comp.os.os2.advocacy:200374 comp.sys.acorn.advocacy:8904 comp.sys.mac.advocacy:104928 comp.sys.next.advocacy:35170 comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy:3337 comp.unix.advocacy:20284 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:18986 comp.unix.bsd.misc:944 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3534 comp.unix.machten:2454 comp.unix.pc-clo ne.16bit:799 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:9332 comp.unix.shell:32571 comp.unix.solaris:68243 comp.unix.user-friendly:3727 In article <4mo939$h3@dfw-ixnews1.ix.netcom.com>, * wrote: > How can you say MACs are better.. MAC OS doesn't even have preemptive > multitasking!! Get Windows 95.. It has preemptive multitasking for > 32-bit apps and co-operative multitasking for 16-bit apps... and MACs > don't have nearly as much software as PCs do..Maybe that's why 99% of > businesses use PCs and not MACs.. It doesn't matter.. Apple will be > out of busineess by 1997...Get a real computer It really amazes me to see _anybody_ ranting about Win95 multitasking in a forum including large umbers of Unix newsgroups. I use a Mac, but I'm not about to run around claiming it's designed for the sort of things Unix can do. My Mac runs multiple programs at the same time, and so I do, whenever I feel like it. That hardly makes it preemptive multitasking, certainly doesn't mean it's a multi-user system, etcetera. It works for what I want it to do, with some exceptions. The exceptions would bring Win95 to its knees every bit as easily as MacOS. I'll not even bother getting into the falseness of our anonymous friend's claims. Other people can and will do it. I just felt like pointing out the staggering hubris of even bringing up single-user OS multitasking in an environment filled with Unix people. It's a bit scary. Did he have even the faintest of clues? Jinx_tigr (aka Chris Johnson)