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- From: bgrubb@dante.nmsu.edu (GRUBB)
- Subject: Re: Mac OS on PC
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.191523.13761@nmsu.edu>
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- Organization: New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 19:15:23 GMT
- Lines: 42
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- bc@Apple.COM (bill coderre) writes
- >Consider the differences in the application program level:
- > Mac PC
- > one hard disk standard several hard disk standards
- > one kind of video many kinds of video
- > few kinds of printer many kinds of printer
- > few kinds of network many kinds of network
- > one kind of sound several kinds of sounds
- >In order for a Mac to truly compete in Clone land, you'd have to add
- >all this compatibility in the OS. Microsoft has been trying. It ain't
- >easy.
- In your haste to show that people will choose the machine that will best fit
- their need you made some mistakes. * indiactes that the info
- was provided in my Mac & IBM Info posting.
- > Mac PC
- > one hard disk standard several hard disk standards
- Some of the PC hard disk standards are incompatable with each other or networks*
- > one kind of video many kinds of video
- Mac has one TYPE of video interface and FOUR TYPES of video: Apple B&W, Apple
- Color, IBM VGA(MacUser ?,1991), and Autosynchronous Monitors(MacUser Aug 1992)
- > few kinds of printer many kinds of printer
- True but this a problem with the makers of the printers not providing the
- drivers and not of the Mac itself.
- > few kinds of network many kinds of network
- In my Mac & IBM Info posting I pointed out that
- "Each of the MS-DOS networking schemes are, in general, totally incompatible
- with the others. Once you have chosen one, you are pretty much locked-in to
- that product line from then on."* Windows/Work Groups is a little more
- forgiving and removes this problem to some degree.
- > one kind of sound several kinds of sounds
- Accually the Mac supports two kind of sound made by Apple: AIFF and snd
- not counting the sounds used before the development of snd as a standard:
- WAVE, ASND, FSSD, QSSN, SMSD, SOUN, dc2d, and DCFL to mention a few. So
- the Mac 'several kinds of sounds' just as the PC does. The Mac desided
- to make two(AIFF and snd) the standard around system 4.1 or 6.0.3 and
- with the rewrite of the Sound Manager in system 6.0.7 some of the old sounds
- do not play right, but most still do.
-
- Just some needed corrections
- Next time be a little more detailed about compairing Mac and PC. I found out
- that simple lists as the above DON'T cut it {That is why Mac & IBM Info has
- grown to 29K of text.}
-