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- From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
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- Subject: Re: Where the mac really wins
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- Date: 21 Dec 92 15:56:39 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec15.223714.8555@gn.ecn.purdue.edu| jess@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Jess M Holle) writes:
- ||At the beginning of the semester the Mac labs get more use than the
- ||PC labs, perhaps because the Macs look a little cuter and the mud
- ||and game players predominate. Later in the semester after people ac-
- ||tually start writing papers etc. you'll see the PC labs chock full
- ||and the Mac labs almost empty as people realize that the PCs actually
- ||let you get the work done without crashing because you forgot to
- ||reboot the computer first and someone left LPMUD running in the back-
- ||ground and will let you print without having to check the Print Moni-
- ||tor for constipation.
- |
- |Is this due to any of these reasons or rather a lack of decent INSTALLED
- |software??? Most Mac labs around here have a wait HOURS long. The only
- |public college computer lab where I've ever seen more PC's in use than Macs
- |was a certain college where the only software installed on the Macs was
- |MacWrite. Besides this, the Macs were Pluses with 1 MB memory, whereas the
- |PC's were 386's, I believe. There were still almost as many people using
- |the Macs as there were people using PC's.
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- MacWrite II, Word 5, Wordperfect 2.1, Excel 3 and 4, Hypercard, Telnet
- (probably used the most), Filemaker Pro, MacPaint, MacDraw II, Superpaint,
- Pagemaker, etc. etc. etc...
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