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- From: Pat Coleman <dinsdale@europa.com>
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- Date: Mon, 3 Jun 96 21:06 PDT
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- At 08:49 PM 6/3/96 -0500, Gene Michael DeClark <gdeclar@indy.tds.net>
- expoundeth:
- >At 07:31 PM 6/2/96 -0700, you wrote:
- >>This is both for Executor users and ARDI.
- >>If you have Windows 95(Mac84) and can't wait for the Windows 95 version of
- >Executor, these programs might
- >>help.: (etc.)
- >
- > Okay, NOT to start a flame war here, I just have to point out that,
- >despite all of Windows 95's obvious flaws and Microsoft's larger concern for
- >capital than quality, the whole nickname of Mac84 I keep hearing is
- >inaccurate and unfair. Anyone who has used a Mac from 84 and Windows 95
- >would know how and why this statement is true, so I will limit myself to one
- >observation: Macintosh in 1984 was NOT a multitasking system. This whole
- >analogy is really a flame in itself, and besides that is more apples and
- >potatoes than apples and oranges.
- >
- >--Gene
-
- Well said. Other than look-and-feel, the two OSes have nothing in common.
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- More to the point, would we really want them to?
-
- The Mac OS is elegant and intuitive. But it doesn't have to support on its
- shoulders a HUGE amount of contentious, contrary hardware and software. I
- marvel at Win 95, not for its speed (which is merely OK) or its interface
- (which, frankly, could use some work), but rather that they managed to support
- thousands and thousands of peripherals and apps, delicately balancing 16-bit
- legacy support and 32-bit, pre-emptively multitasked apps as well as they have.
-
- If Win 95 is gonna get gigged for resembling the Mac OS to a large degree, fine.
- But ignoring the underlying *architecture* in order to glibly call it "Mac84" is
- grossly unfair.
-
- I like the Mac OS.
- I also like Windows 95.
- For different reasons.
- Imagine that.
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- mst3kbabylon5theymightbegiantsreddwarfdrwhohomicideblakes7dennismiller
- Pat "Executor/DOS registered user" Coleman dinsdale@europa.com
- Delenn: "Why do humans always say 'Are you ready' just before doing
- something massively unwise?" Sinclair: "Tradition."
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