Barry Lee Brisco wrote:
>
> At 01:38 PM 06/11/98 -0700, you wrote:
> >Windows Required
> >
> >When is a company forced to sell you their competitor's product? When
> >the competitor's name is Microsoft. One man's futile quest to avoid
> >doing Windows.
> >
> >http://www.mojones.com/sideshow/os.html
>
> Interesting piece. The article states:
>
> "There are plenty of competing operating systems out there: OS/2, BeOS, and
> Amiga, not to mention nerdware favorite Linux (a freely distributed
> operating system whose customizable features make it the favorite of the
> pocket protector set). And those are only the ones that work on Pentium
> computers.So you've got plenty of options�or do you? "
>
> I am disappointed that the writer was not more specific about alternatives.
> Macs are a much more viable alternative for the average user than any of
> the above. Come on, get real! Anyone can pick up and use a Mac, and there's
> tons of software for it. The above 4 OS's are either practically extinct
> (OS/2, Amiga), not for the masses (Linux) or specialized for multimedia
> production (BeOS). But the Mac is for anyone from newbies to professionals.
yes -- i believe his point (not stated, so this is an assumption) is
that those OS'es mentioned above will all run on Intel Chip.
MacOS will not.
Kathy
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