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To: N3WBI3
BTW MacOS pre-X was crap, Ill agree with you on that anytime.

While pre-OSX MacOS had problems, for a long time (at least until Windows95) it was still better than Windows. I worked in a college computer lab through the early 1990s and I could understand and respond to almost any Mac problem that a student had verbally and they'd understand how to fix their problem (unless they were particularly dense) but I couldn't understand or solve a single Windows problem that way. Even if I understood the problem they were describing, I couldn't tell them how to fix it without worrying that they'd mess it up and make things even worse. Basically, the Macs had a handful of common and predictable problems that were easy to fix while the Windows machines could just be messed up in too many ways to keep track of. Of course I pretty much jumped from MacOS to Linux at that point and them jumped back after the iMac, iBook, and OSX.

202 posted on 08/25/2005 8:11:29 AM PDT by Question_Assumptions (`)
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To: Question_Assumptions
Being as good as win3.11 is nothing to brag about... Pre OSX memory management on macs alone was reason to call it a joke, and not a very funny one for people who had to support Mac Users.

I worked in a college computer lab through the early 1990s and I could understand and respond to almost any Mac problem that a student had verbally and they'd understand how to fix their problem (unless they were particularly dense) but I couldn't understand or solve a single Windows problem that way.

And I worked in one through the mid 90's and while you may have experienced greater transparency in the Apples of the early 90's by the time windows95 came out that was not enough.

204 posted on 08/25/2005 8:23:06 AM PDT by N3WBI3 (If SCO wants to go fishing they should buy a permit and find a lake like the rest of us..)
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