Miata Mailing List: July 1998, Message #19

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At 12:01 -0700 6/30/98, Richard J. Teasdale wrote:
><snip>
>Go out and get a Macintosh G3 300MHz (equivalent to a Pentium II 600MHz) or
>wait and get one of the new 400MHz models.
><snip>
>
>Or you could buy a computer that is supported by twenty times the software and
>is more likely to be around for decades to come.  I refer, of course, to a PC.
>CPU speed is not the entire issue here.  Why not buy a Mustnag with a big V-8
>instead of a Miata?  Faster "CPU" in that Mustnag.
>

Mustang = PC

Miata = MacOS

Richard, with my MacOS computer I can format, read from & write to PC
floppies right out of the box. Add either SoftWindows95 or VirtualPC with
Win95, and I have a system that is more stable then any PC running Win95.

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>
>Why buy PC?
>
>Let's see.
>
>IBM-PC compatibles:     93% of the market
>Macintosh:                        6% of the market (down from 8%, and still
>dropping)
>All others:                         1% of the market
>


But your 93% consists of at least FOUR different OS: MS/PC-DOS, Win3.X,
Win95/98, WinNT, and OS/2. And yes, I know that OS8 can't run on anything
less than a 68040 or PPC chip; but I wouldn't try to run Win95 on a 386
chip. Finally, the TCO of a MacOS machine vs a wintel machine is way lower.

>Sorry, but I own an old Mac and I know what it was like buying software for
>it.  There just isn't the selection that there is for the PC.  We can talk
>about software quality if you want, but that isn't the point.  No one program
>works best for everyone.  Macintosh often has only one decent program
>available
>for a given task while the PC market has dozens for the same task.
>

I have no problems buying software, one call and it is delivered overnight
right to my door. 30 seconds later it is installed and running.

>I worked at an office that was mostly PC, but part Mac.  We had to use a
>database that worked on the Mac.  There was only one choice: FileMaker Pro.
>Mac guys think this is the best thing since sliced bread, but the fact is, it
>stinks compared to dBase, Fox Pro, Paradox, Clipper, Access, and ten other
>PC-based databases.
>

FileMakerPro has been spun off into its own company because of the
increased demand for it from Windows users.

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>
>And please, don't tell me that Steve Jobs invented the graphical user
>interface
>and the mouse with the introduction of the Mac.  It just ain't true.  First,
>Apple introduced the long-forgetten Lisa before the Mac which also had them.
>Plus, Steve stole the graphical user interface and the mouse concept directly
>from Xerox after his visit to Xerox's PARC facility (Palo Alto Research
>Center).  Xerox invented and developed the technology that Mac made popular.
>Stevie boy just stole it while Xerox was trying to figure out how to
>market it,
>something they probably would never have figured out.
>

Yes, and Bill Gates steals the ideas that Apple R&D comes up with and uses
them.

I have to work with wintel machines on the job and they're always crashing
or freezing. Hopefully we'll be able to network them soon and one problem
will be solved.



Miataly,
Dennis
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