> As I replied to several people who mentioned that concern, the only real hope
> is for the Mac OS/Motorola chip is at some point in time to become fully
> compatible with the Intel processors, so that the Windows 98/NT OS'es can
> operate in a fully partitioned MOS (multiple operating system) environment
> with the Mac OS. Apple has been promising/threatening to do this for some
> time, but they always seems to back off at the last moment. But if they do --
> and they do it correctly -- then our code, and everyone else's, would run
> without modification.
>
> If Apple doesn't do this, my most heartfelt advice is, for the sake of future
> growth, is that the time has come to abandon the Mac. Please understand that
> doesn't mean throwing the Macs you own out. They can continue to run until
> the ends of their respective lives.

Wirt,
  I'm amused and a bit amazed to hear this out of one of the folks who has kept
the HP3000 alive.  If there is a comparable group in the PC world to the 3000
folks, it has to be the Mac aficionados.  Those folks have been going through
much the same thing we have.  They love the machine, but the company seems
clueless about how to sell it.  I used to dislike the Mac because I'm a
programmer and find it very frustrating to not be able to get at the guts.  I
don't want to be protected from myself :-).  But for those who don't feel the
need to tweak and fiddle, the Mac has a lot of plusses and for certain markets,
the visual artists and musicians in particular, it is pretty much the only
machine to buy.  Particularly if Apple can get their act together (which, by
the by, I don't define as being able to pretend to be a Windows box ;-), I
expect the Mac to keep a fairly significant market share for many years to
come.

Ted
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Ted Ashton ([log in to unmask]), Info Serv, Southern Adventist University
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The mathematic, then, is an art. As such it has its styles and style periods.
It is not, as the layman and the philosopher (who is in this matter a layman
too) imagine, substantially unalterable, but subject like every art to
unnoticed changes form epoch to epoch. The development of the great arts ought
never to be treated without an (assuredly not unprofitable) side-glance at
contemporary mathematics.
                        -- Spengler, Oswald (1880 -1936)