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Re: What do you do with a
- Subject: Re: What do you do with a
- From: dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff)
- Date: 1997/07/25
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: The Greater Columbus FreeNet
- References: <5r3jc5$nfl@nntp02.primenet.com> <5r3nm7$lsc$1@mentor.telis.org>
itsme (quantum@telis.org) wrote:
: I know that my IIe boots well over 50 times faster than my PC
: This includes loading the program of your choice.
: For instance, word processors, accounting programs, business programs,
: games.
"Power off" to "Creating new text in Apple Writer //e" in under four
seconds on an unaccelerated //e with adapted Vulcan hard drive. My GS
won't come up that fast; my PC at the office can't even finish the memory
test that quickly.
: Alot of this stuff is as good or better than PC programs that do the same
: thing.
: PC programs tend to be way more complicated.
: Apple programs are usually easily understood even without instruction
: manuals.
Tell me about it. I'm trying to puzzle my way through Micro$oft Access at
the office right now, and I am learning the big disadvantage to site
licensing: I don't get a manual to read. 8-(
Which reminds me...Anyone got email contact info for DBMaster or DBMaster
Pro? That is a really nice-looking program for the ][...
--Dave Althoff, ][.
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