Re: Mac users are feeling our pain :)

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <447199b9$0$31640$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>,
Peter de Vroomen <peterv[at][spamblock]jaytown[dot]com> wrote:
>> Which is exactly why I do NOT do business with Apple. I was, am still am,
>an
>> Apple IIe/c/gs user.  The Apple II family was the cash cow for Apple back
>in
>> the day.  Then Sculley & Jobs dumped the Apple II in favor of the
>> non-backward-compatible Mac platform.  I, and all of my contemporaries at
>> the time vowed never to buy another Apple product (unless it was an Apple
>II
>> found at a thrift store). To this day, I have not done business with
>Apple,
>> and I never plan to.
>
>Yes, for exactly the same reasons I do not do business with Microsoft and
>still program in BASIC. Microsoft dumped BASIC in favor of C++,

Dunno about that -- after all, Microsoft still sells Visual Basic.  I'm
amazed Microsoft hasn't dumped Basic yet ...... otoh Basic was the first
language interpreter which Bill Gates wrote - the first version was
for the Mits Altair 8080.  Seems like Gates still can't let go of Basic...

>and I vowed
>never to buy another Microsoft product (unless it was a Microsoft BASIC
>version found at a thrift store).
>
>PeterV

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