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Subject:	Re: Macs (was Re: GMLTC Teaser page)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.general
Date:	Wed, 2 Jun 1999 13:01:10 GMT
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"Christopher L. Weeks" wrote: > I have to agree with John :-) Mac's don't rule, too low a market share > to say that. They are merely far superior to those kludgy Wintel > abominations. > > And it's all in the OS. I wish they made it for other hardware so those > of you without Macs would have an option better than imersion in strong > acid baths. Classic Corporate Arrogance. Apple almost killed themselves with stupidity. If they had allowed Macs to be cloned, and had ported MacOS to the intel platform around the time of OS/2 1.1 and Windows 2.0, this would be a far different (better?) world. I'm glad Apple survived, but they certainly didn't *deserve to* based on their hubris. -- Larry Pieniazek http://my.voyager.net/lar FDIC Know your Customer is wounded, thanks to you, but not dead... See http://www.defendyourprivacy.com for details For me: No voyager e-mail please. All snail-mail to Ada, please. - Posting Binaries to RTL causes flamage... Don't do it, please. - Stick to the facts when posting about others, please. - This is a family newsgroup, thanks.

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		Re: Macs (was Re: GMLTC Teaser page)
(...) Yup. I wonder if they will survive another decade? When I came to UTK in 1993 the ratio of Macs to PCs in the student labs was around 10 to 1, maybe worse. Now it's almost the other way around. And the ed market has always been Apple's (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jun-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.general)

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		Macs (was Re: GMLTC Teaser page)
(...) I have to agree with John :-) Mac's don't rule, too low a market share to say that. They are merely far superior to those kludgy Wintel abominations. And it's all in the OS. I wish they made it for other hardware so those of you without Macs (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jun-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.general)

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