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To: sepku who wrote (36462)	2/26/1998 8:54:00 AM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Respond to of 61433

LOL...I love those old MAC/PC rivalries! On a more serious note, I was actually eagerly awaiting the arrival of Rhapsody running on Intel powered MACS. I haven't followed Apple for about 6 months, so I don't have any idea what going on with that. So what's the story? I will fill you in with great detail on a weekend<G> I need to make money now to buy more Macs <VBG> Glenn

To: sepku who wrote (36462)	2/27/1998 6:14:00 PM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 61433

****OT***** LOL...I love those old MAC/PC rivalries! Style, I use to get involved in those debates. The days of the debates are gone since the Mac has less than 5% of PC market share. Windows initially was a shell running on top of DOS trying to emulate the Mac interface. The operating system is now not running on top of DOS from what I understand. Apple made a large marketing error by making the Mac too pricey and thus, losing market share to those wishing to buy machines for less and not knowing how much more work it would be to learn how to operate those machines. There is now a convergence in both operating systems. The Mac is more stable. Windows has a tendency to crash on a daily basis for most people. Windows does have dynamic RAM allocation and the Mac RAM allocation is static. That is a plus for Windows. Multitasking on the Mac is really context switching whereas, Windows is close to preemptive multitasking. Both operating systems come with networking built in. There is a lot more software made for Windows due the quantity of units running Windows. However, all of the top line business software is written for both operating systems. I do not use my machines for games. The Mac operating system is inherently better for graphics but not so for number crunching. Consensus would give number crunching to Windows. I am not in agreement. I do use Multi-Ad Creator to create my paper advertisements and the Mac version is superior to Windows. Again that is graphics. I do not take a stand as to which system is better. It is personal preference. I prefer the Mac due to years of familiarity. My employees train faster on the Mac which saves me money. To each their own. You ought to really try a Mac <VBG> Glenn