Hugh Gundersen typed the following on 6/12/2006 1:09 PM:
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????????????????
If you dleted "Windows", you;d have to agree with him, no? :-)
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?
No but there were several 16-bit Unixlike OSes around back then. There was
even a nice shell program called 4DOS that was very Unixlike.
--
Pete Holsberg
Columbus, NJ
"Only a mediocre person is always at his best."
-- W. Somerset Maugham
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