Re: Stop the rhetoric

[snit@nevada.edu (Snit)]

The White Family enlightened us with: 
: I am getting quite ill from some Mac users
: who are so confident of the superiority of Mac OS.  On and on they put
: down Windows and Bill Gates accusing him alternately of ripping off Mr.
: Jobs and putting out a bad product for consumers. Continually, they
: expound and extoll the virtues of the Mac OS at the same time Apple is set
: to take the final swan dive into corperate oblivion.  Come on folks..
: 
Ok... generally I try not to respond to off-topic posts, but I just
can't hold back this one.  A short story...

In 1990 I was teaching word processing using Word 4.x on, even then,
old Macs (plus's and SE's) and was talking to other teachers teaching
Word Perfect 5.1 on the PC... using the O.S. of the time: DOS.  Since
then, DOS has essentially died (yes, I know Win 95 still runs on it
and many folks still use it, but yu can not deny that it is primarily
gone by now).  DOS, of course, was replaced by Windows.  Since that
time, Windows has died to be replaced by Win 95. During all that time,
the MacOS has grown, improved, and seen several generations.  But it
is still essentially the same OS.  A Mac user from 1990  would be able
to usie a Mac of today quite well.  A PC user of 1990 would not
recognize a PC of today - unless they were already famiiar with the
Mac of 1990, or even of 1984.  

In short, yes, the Mac MIGHT die.  But the PC has died twice since I
have been hearing that.  And it's newest life looks an awful lot like
the Mac.  I really don't care who makes the OS of 2000.  But I can
tell you it will be more Mac-like than PC-like.  I was right 6 years
ago when I debated with the other teachers.  Time will show if my
record will hold.