Re: A Tale of Two Apples

[bjblackbear@ibm.net (B.J. Major)]

Matt Portune <mportune@telerama.com> wrote:

> Mitchell Spector <spec@vax2.concordia.ca> wrote:
> > (come to think of it, they've drastically changed from maybe 3-4 years
> > ago. During the era of Windows 3.1 and DOS, AdLib, MCGA and 386's, I
> > would completely agree the Macintosh was a preferrable system, most
> > especially for it's GUI and ease of use then).
> 
> Hey Mitch, 
>       I couldn't have said it better myself.  Apple sat back and let
> a technically inferior platform innovate right past them.  

Innovate????  Microsoft doesn't know HOW to innovate.  It only copies
features that others have already done and then calls it its own work.

>For me, using
> MacOS these days is torture.  My mind goes numb waiting for the machine to
> catch up with me.  That's no way to compute. 

You must be using a very old Mac.  The CPU speed buster model is now up
to 300 megahertz.  Even in Aug. '96 you could get a Mac that was over
100 megahertz.


-- 
--bj   Auto reply will not work; remove "black" to reply
Proud owner/user of Apple Computers since 1984  
Barbie & Ken doll fan since 1961