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#! rnews 2667 bsd 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!paladin.american.edu!gatech!news.cse.psu.edu!news.math.psu.edu!news.cac.psu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!tezcat.com!news.ner.bbnplanet.net!handupme.avid.com!news@avid.com From: jim_friend <jim_friend@avid.com> 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: Fri, 10 May 1996 08:05:30 -0400 Organization: AVID Technology, Inc. Tewksbury, MA Lines: 15 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <3193310A.7DA3@avid.com> 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: jfriend.avid.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Macintosh; I; PPC) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.binaries.warez.mac:4346 alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc:39588 comp.os.linux.advocacy:48847 comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy:127790 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:24309 comp.os.msdos.misc:55201 comp.os.os2.advocacy:200944 comp.sys.acorn.advocacy:8966 comp.sys.mac.advocacy:105398 comp.sys.next.advocacy:35248 comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy:3442 comp.unix.advocacy:20375 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:19117 comp.unix.bsd.misc:989 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3573 comp.unix.machten:2490 comp.unix.pc-clo ne.16bit:828 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:9356 comp.unix.shell:32693 comp.unix.solaris:68484 comp.unix.user-friendly:3765 Hellraiser@someone.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 Well gee, bubba, thanks. There's some information we've never heard in this ng before... got any other pearls of wisdom? -jf