unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) (10/16/89)
In article <8910140620.AA25938@trout.nosc.mil> chines@pro-europa.cts.com (Clifford Hines) writes: >Comment to message from: umigw!ibiza!bsherman@handies.ucar.edu (Bob Sherman) > >It sounds like Apple is trying to convert us to Macs. By force. Some of us are >converted. I will get a Mac for my next computer in the future. But Apple's >actions are going get those Apple II'ers into the MS-DOS camp since some >people don't like Macs. >Just one person crying out in the woods. > >Cliff > >UUCP: crash!pro-europa!chines >ARPA: crash!pro-europa!chines@nosc.mil >INET: chines@pro-europa.cts.com Just one quick suggestion. As this article I'm responding to no longer has to do with my long AppleFest review, it seems it should've had its subject changed long ago. I hope that's not taken as a whine, it just seems subjects should be kept SOMEWHAT up to date. It's very similar to the suggestion that people keep tack of what other newsgroups their posting to! (After saying that I just went up and checked that it was only going to comp.sys.apple!) But I think you are wrong. When (if???) I stop using my GS as my main computer, I don't know if I will be going Mac... I sure won't be going MS-DOS. Unless IBM somehow changes their whole ideology and computers around, I don't think there's a chance in hell I'll be getting an IBM... I think I'll probably get a NeXT (especially if I'm still in school by the time I want to buy one...God, it's $3500 less than on the streets!)... Even though the NeXT takes the Mac ideology even farther, it seems really neat from the little I have used one.. Well, I guess in a way it takes the Mac ideology farther and in some ways it doesn't. Being under UNIX seems to make you able to go "low level" on the machine easily, but it also has the icons/pulldown menus... [Disclaimer: I do not program under UNIX and only use it for its most "high level" commands like ls, cat, more, and some setenv stuff...Just admitting I'm most likely wrong about that "low level" statement]. -- unknown@ucscb.ucsc.edu