Re: Are you a Switch-It! owner?

[kjr@cei.net (Kevin J Radziwon)]

In article <4av3g0$q7r@eternity.c2.org>, kyle@c2.org ($mash Mouth) wrote:

> In article <4atu49$d6s@nntp3.news.primenet.com>,
>    johnlb@Primenet.Com (John Bowling) wrote:
> >First, PC is NOT another way of saying IBM CLONE.  PC is Personal 
> >Computer, and that means ANY personal computer.
> 
> No.  Look at a magazine called "PC Computing" and tell me how many articles 
> you see on Macs.  Also, order some software and listen to them when they ask
> whether you are using a PC or a mac. Everyone knows that a PC refers to
an IBM 
> clone and a Mac refers to a lightweight system that you'll have a hard time 
> finding cool software for.  Everyone knows that.

   Cool software like what? Windows 95 (or should we say the bloated, poor
imitation, almost gui that validates Bill Gates fear that the Mac and
MacOS have always been superior to the other platform)? Name one program
category that is so overwhelmingly "cool" that it should make the decision
to buy an inferior computer a no-brainer (oh, I'm sorry the purchaser
would have to be a no-brainer).
   Should we also mention that Mac users have always had a better
operating system and never had to deal with memory barriers or for that
matter complicated upgrades and system software configuration. Plug & play
was here in 1984 on a better built and more reliable platform than any IBM
clone. Add a CD-Rom drive? Oh, yeah plug it in and turn it on. Set what
jumpers? And I won't even get into the comparisons of video and sound.
Well, maybe a little. Macs were designed for graphics. Sound is built in.
Perhaps it makes more sense to buy a machine without those capabilities
and then spend more to add them and force a multi-layered "operating
system" onto it just to watch it's so-called better performance go right
down the drain.
   But I'm getting off the track here. Everyone that knows anything knows
that PC stands for personal computer. Only the mindless throngs that
follow blindly behind the Wintel banners would assume that because someone
somewhere has done something incorrectly that it should become a standard.
Oh, but that's what keeps the good folks at Intel & Microsoft in business.
   Please keep your narrow-minded, rubberstamped, company approved, filed
in triplicate opinions where they belong. You will not convince anyone
here that your machine or you are better than ours or us.

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Kevin J Radziwon - kjr@cei.net
C & K Enterprises
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