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To: Eugene Goodman who wrote (18411)	4/10/1998 1:44:00 AM
From: nommedeguerre	Respond to of 24154

Eugene, Thanks for the retrospective on Apple but you missed my point about the Apple II/Commodore. I cannot remember reinstalling the OS ever on these machines, they performed as advertised and only bad apps could lock a system; but resetting the machine always brought it back to a stable state condition. >>Another thing that has bothered me about Apple is that in the past their computers sold at a premium over PCs. Since many of the colleges and universities required Apples, Daddy had to pay. Yeah, shelling out $4000 on top of the $150000 to attend MIT made alot of Daddies send junior elsewhere. They also make the students use the same textbooks, imagine that! Its America, find a school that requires a DELL or abacus instead. >>Although you do not feel comfortable with the thought, I think that all of this is good. You and all of your peers will be able to make a good living for a long time because of Windows' imperfections and because MSFT has A monopoly. Sorry for not feeling comfortable with the thought that life is better when things do not function correctly. So what you are saying is that the medical profession would all be better off if they had not cured polio but instead just kept innovating the iron-lung to keep more doctors employed. Why cure problems and rock the boat of wealth. If something as complex as a B-2 bomber costs a couple billion dollars we could certainly come up with a PC that delivers rock-solid video/audio with a Windowing OS in ROM for that amount! This is probably just fantasy since we know that the software required to make bombers disappear off of radar is far less complicated than getting Excel to do recalcs properly. Cheers, Norm