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Joe Ragosta <[log in to unmask]>
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Joe Ragosta <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 7 Aug 1996 13:50:30 -0500
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In article <01bb8267$c7b52340$0e44fecc@pvnisoft>, "Vinh-Nien Nguyen"
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> What the hell do you mean?! The Mac users I know lack the mental capacity
> to get PC's to work, so that was probably the problem. Regarding
 
Wrong. There are millions of Mac users who used to use PCs. In fact, I'm
more knowledgeable about PCs than anyone in our company. In fact, based on
Evans Research, it looks like many people prefer Macs simply because they
_are_ knowledgeable about PCs.
 
> communications, a tech person at my workplace had to spend well over a
> month to get the company's only Macintosh to log on to the Internet. Having
 
Where did you find such a stupid tech person? If he had asked, we would
have told him that the computer needed to be plugged in first.
 
> the same OS is not all it takes to interface computers. You need the same
> software as well. Apple decided to use their dumb built in propriatery (did
> I spell that right?) software because their customers are too stupid to
> find one for themselves. The Novell IPX protocol is what just about
> everyone uses in the PC world for Local Area Networks. Another thing to
 
Not really true, but what's your point? I use IPX on my Mac, too.
 
> prove that PC's are superior, why are there all these PC emulating things
> on the market? The only Mac emulating things I've seen are shareware and
> freeware, probably because they wouldn't make enough money in a store.

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