Re: Micro$loth Windoze 95 Badges - how they should be

[Bob Patin <bskate@nashville.net>]

>Thirty minutes on a Mac will make me understand what?  Understand that
>I've wasted my money on dead-end hardware?  Understand that I have to
>wait for the newest versions of software for my OS?  Understand that
>I'll have to live even longer with cooperative multitasking and
>overpriced hardware and upgrades?
>
>To be truthful, I have one on my desk.  So, I've used it for much more
>than 30 minutes.  It does, however, make a terrific paperweight. 

Yeah, but you need to learn how to use it, just like your VCR (can you program your VCR?) <G>

Why do you have to wait for newest versions of software? I'm using a mixture of programs I 
got 9 years ago (a few games) on my PowerPC, and they run great; total backwards 
compatibility. Let's hear someone make that claim about Windows... and what's this 32-bit stuff 
they keep throwing around? On some PC's, perhaps, but certainly not all by a long stretch.

I'm currently running a half-dozen applications as I type this; my word processor is printing 
while I type this, and I'm online to Internet. My calendar program is up, waiting for me to look at 
it. I'm not waiting for anything; I just can't look at all 6 programs at once. 

You know, the bottom line is, in all seriousness, that both the PC world and the Mac world are 
really exciting these days, and Windows is finally a really nice front-end for PC-users. I have 4 
brothers in different corporate jobs; one sells Hewlett-Packards, the architect does CAD on a 
PC, the lawyer uses both Macs and PC's, but is moving over to the Macs because he prefers 
them, and the last brother uses Macs but his corporation (Dow) is forcing a switch to PC's for 
cost reasons, since their base is more PC-heavy. 

I hear these debates every holiday! The truth of it is, they're both good operating systems, only 
Apple got there first. Unfortunately, they made some critical errors in judgment, and their 
market share isn't what it should be at this point. But let's wait and see what happens now that 
Mac clones are here...

But I always enjoy a little good-natured flaming!