From: tomster@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Thomas Richard Dibble)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.advocacy
Subject: Re: Why a Mac??? (PC vs Mac stats given here)
Date: 27 Sep 92 21:30:02
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA 01609-2280
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In-reply-to: fzchen@othello.ucdavis.edu's message of 20 Sep 92 23:06:00 GMT

In article <17182@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> fzchen@othello.ucdavis.edu writes:

   In article <19irlaINNdl6@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> nan@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Nan Zou) writes:
   >
   >Screen response depends heavily on the video subsystem, with the Mac,
   >there's not much room for surprise, with the PC, you get a lot more
   >flexibility, it could be a generic dog-slow 8-bit VGA, or it could be a
   >blazing fast ATI Graphics Ultra (50,000+ Xstones).
   >
   >expensive process.  Let's see a multithreaded OS/2 program running in
   >32-bit linear address space and compare that.
   >
   >
   >OS/2 to MacOS, home theatre to color TV.

   Hmmm.  Sounds like a crock of BS to me.  Why don't you tell me how much
   it'll cost you to run a PC capable of OS/2 with a Mac quality display
   built in network capabilities and all the other stuff you need to
   throw in to ramp your OS/2 machine's capabilites up to a Mac's.  Lets

I'll get an os/2 machine up and running and you tell ME how much you'd
have to spend upgrading your Mac to get comperable performance.

   also compare how many programs will support your "Multithreaded OS/2
   running in 32-bit linear address space" (by the way, welcome to 
   the modern world.  We Mac users have had 32 bit addressing almost a year
   and a half now and yes the 030 and up have a 32 bit wide bus).  

God, how long have Unix users had that 'True Multi-tasking' thing you Mac
users are just learning to appreciate?

   At any rate, I'll find a better Mac at the same price you've given me.  The

Yeah, right.   You were joking, weren't you?

   fact is that people like you get on and complain about not having multithreading
   and protected memory and preemptive multitasking and.....and the fact is
   that only people that give a shit about this garbage are programmers.  Reality
   is that 95%, no 99%, of personal computer users won't use these features.

What?  I can see you are a self-proclaimed survey tabulator.  Most computer
users won't ever use those features, eh?  BUT programmers DO care about them.
Hmm...  Something doesn't quite gel there.  It just so happens that on all
the machines I personally have ever worked on, most of the major applications
were written by programmers.

   Besides, if I wanted a workstation I'd just buy a SUN.   The same mentatlity
   should be used by you.  If you need workstation features and powers, buy 
   a workstation.  You shouldn't even consider buying a personal computer.  If
   you want a personal computer, buy a Mac.  

A high end pc can be a MUCH better deal than a low-end work-station.

   Just the facts.

Oh yeah.

   -MeatHead

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