On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 12:34:09 -0400, you wrote:
>Especially the older Macs their architeture was so closed you couldn't get most
>of the hardware that non-Mac pcs had access to which to some small degree
>changed
>with the powerMacs and now with the MacIntel PCs.
>
> With all the news being bandied about the new MacIntel systems the let you
> run Mac OS X and Windows XP dual-boot system that still hasn't convinced me
> to switch from the PC. Especially those new Apple comericials that try an
> obvious attempt to convince users to switch by dumbing down and insulting the
> user's intelligence by portraying the PC as a man in a suit and the Mac as a
> young man in a t-shirt.
>
>Why should I switch from the PC. What I have experience with working with for
>over
>35 years since 1980 when the first IBM PC jr came out in August of that year
>and I've never touched a Mac since High School becuase they didn't have the
>huge software library of what Windows PCs had back then,
Excuse me ---- Wasn't Bill gates in College then or was this soon after
he left? Windows wasn't about then in any shape or form except for an
apple in Bill's eye. Windows emerged as a fledgling sometime during 83
or 84 I belive and then it was total crap but interesting enough to play
with. Windows came up with 3.0, 3.1 & 3.11 for networking and lasted a
long time until NT cane in from the cold and then 95 made it's debut
followed swiftly by 98. But WINDOWS PCs in 1980????????????????
> they weren't as open as PCs then and the PCs allowed you to run either DOS,
> IBM DOS, Windows 3.1, 95, Linux, unix ect to let you run the PC they way you
> wanted it to run which is still very true today. Not many Macs could let you
> get away with that with the exception of Virtual PC but you had to
>have a certain model of Mac to accomplish that feat.
I really think you had better re-read this and edit accordingly - Linux
in 1980?
>
> Sure now the new MacIntel PCs will let you do what the PCs have been doing
> since the 80's but the truth is it took Apple over 35 years to figure that
> out and actually implement native hardware multiboot systems without the use
> of Virtual PC. That's too little to late for people in the PC world so for
> these reasons now I'm still committed to the PC. ;)
>
> I know what a Mac is, yes, and I know what a PC is, yes but if apple has to
> keep making those lame brianed MAc and PC commericials for dummies
> commericials I'll scream.
>
>Marc Sims
>Data Technician I
>Prince George's Community College
>
Sir Hugh of Bognor
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