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To: SpongeBrain who wrote (2741)1/16/1999 2:25:00 PM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph   of 41369
 
They just want to
be differentr for the sake of being nonconforminst. (I would guess that Mac people are
that to the next degree, but I dont know any, or even used one , so I'll shut about that
topic. ) This is
dangerous in the computing indistry, as the name of the game is standards. Yea yea,
people will argue that MS is the definition of nonstandard.

This is really not the issue but the majority of the first subscribers to AOL were Mac users. The percentage of Mac users was so high that the newest AOL software was created for the Mac first. DOS people used CompuServe. It was text based.

For your information which has nothing to do with the success of AOL, Windows 98 is an excellent copy of the Mac operating system. I use both daily and do not really have a preferance. I would not go as far as to say Mac users are non nonconformists. The cabilities of both operating systems are the same. Windows has far more applications due to the larger user base but the added number are duplications of some type of competing product that does the same thing. One exception I have noted, there is no Signal Online for the Mac and some plugins are not written for the Mac. I am not biased either way as to which platform is better. I can tell you that the Mac operating system has the driver components better integrated into the operating system particularly when it comes to networking. Windows has its adantages too.

Glenn
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