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To: nommedeguerre who wrote (16761)	1/26/1998 9:05:00 PM
From: drmorgan	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 24154

Buy a MAC and you will find the memory still lives! Today and yesterday I ran into three people with PC problems: Norm, I have used MACS for ten years and have far more crashes than I can possibly remember. The most stable OS I have ever used is OS/2 and now I am using NT, which so far is extremely stable, a very good OS indeed. Everyone has different results with different machines and my experience (especially when running CAD) with MACS has been absolutely awful. One installed WindowsNT and now cannot use their modem because the vendor will not supply an NT driver for it (kiss a $200 modem goodbye). Makes me wonder just who has more incompatible OS system variants; MSFT or the UNIX crowd. Drivers can be a problem and so can old 16bit software. NT is not for everyone and most people at home should probably use 95, especially for compatability reasons. I use a Power MAC 180 at a company where I consult and it has systems 7.5.xx, my brother uses system 8 and after installing IE it (or something) killed his system to the point that he had to send it in, under warranty. I can talk all night about the unreliability of the MAC OS but that has been my experience, I'm glad to hear you are having good results as I do hope AAPL gets healthy and once again gives its shareholders some good returns. Quick question, how can you live without a right mouse button? Derek

To: nommedeguerre who wrote (16761)	1/26/1998 10:29:00 PM
From: drmorgan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

There is nothing that I can do on a PC that I cannot do on a MAC, so why suffer. Norm, I hadn't noticed this comment when I previously responded to your post. I can tell you first hand that MACS cannot multitask like Windows NT or OS/2, or Unix. As I write this I can turn on a very sophisticated "Autorouter" that will automatically put in circuit paths on a circuit board, run MS Flight simulator and download multiple large files as I talk on the phone connected to my PC while my printer prints out a document. There is NO way you can do that with a MAC, perhaps with Rhapsody but not the current OS. Of course for your need's a MAC is probably perfect and I'm certainly not knocking them. Derek