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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!plug.news.pipex.net!pipex!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!newsfeed.pitt.edu!bb3.andrew.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!jeaton+ From: Jeffrey T Eaton <jeaton+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: 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,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: The PC Mac Holy war Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 02:56:55 -0400 Organization: Junior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 41 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <clYNQre00iWWMIZe9W@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <---0405961742330001@dyna-37.net7b.io.org> <david-0705960551500001@ts1dl40.escape.ca> <318F5C58.4BBF@rss.dl.nec.com> <4mo939$h3@dfw-ixnews1.ix.netcom.com> <4mr8um$qnb@azure.acsu.buffalo.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: andrew.cmu.edu In-Reply-To: <4mr8um$qnb@azure.acsu.buffalo.edu> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy:127606 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:24194 comp.os.msdos.misc:55076 comp.os.os2.advocacy:200596 comp.sys.acorn.advocacy:8926 comp.sys.mac.advocacy:105113 comp.sys.next.advocacy:35198 comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy:3381 comp.unix.advocacy:20321 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:19030 comp.unix.bsd.misc:953 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3545 comp.unix.machten:2465 comp.unix.pc-clone.16bit:808 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:9340 comp.unix.shell:32615 comp.unix.solaris:68342 comp.unix.user-friendly:3740 comp.os.linux.advocacy:48678 Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.advocacy: 8-May-96 Re: The PC Mac Holy war by Andrew Milleville@acsu.b > Multitasking. Boy, that really makes an OS. NeXTstep has it. > Forget ease of use, Again, NeXTstep. > *true* plug and play, NeXTstep (okay, not on Intel hardware) > long filenames, NeXTstep. > stability, NeXTstep, for the most part... more stable than DOS, Windows 3.1/95, or MacOS. > quality made computers, NeXTstep (okay, so maybe not on Intel hardware) > and a host of other things pc users only dream about. NeXTstep? Dos/Windows compatibility (under SoftWindows), MacOS compatibility (under another package... can't recall the name), FAT and Mac filesystem read/write (built-in), NFS and NetWare (built-in), etc, etc, etc. -jeaton --- Jeffrey T. Eaton jeaton@andrew.cmu.edu Junior, Computer Science/Information Systems at Carnegie Mellon University ---