TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL (03/23/90)
OK gang, here's where the rubber meets the road. Suppose one were going to expand a one-person office to a four or five-person office. The one-person office currently uses an Apple IIGS, 40M hard drive, HP deskjet, TranswarpGs and PC Transporter. A lot of the stuff in the hard drive is in WordPerfect and would need to be carried along somehow. The five person office is going to need one PC per person, a laser printer of somekind, AND internet connectivity and support (telnet, ftp, mail). Presumably some kind of LAN (e.g., AppleTalk) would be the right way to interconnect everything. The PC's would be used mostly for medium-quality documentation and net access; half-tone quality desktop publishing not a need, but line drawings necessary. Net access would be for email and cooperative work on documents with sites using Suns and PC-clones (MS-DOS and maybe some Xenix). (Word processing at those sites uses mostly a mix of LaTex and WordPerfect.) Here's the chance for you Mac and Apple II advocates to make your case for which is the more sensible small business system. (I'm not bothering to ask the PC or Sun lists since I can get those answers directly.) It probably makes sense to ask for direct replies, especially since I don't read the info-mac list regularly. (Besides, one would hate to get an argument started!) I'll summarize anything cogent. TMPLee@dockmaster.ncsc.mil