mm5l+@andrew.cmu.edu (Matthew Mashyna) (07/11/90)
I've been working in a shop that has about 70 Macs and 40 PCs. When windows 3.0 came out we bought a pile of them. The initial reaction was positive. But really I can't say much good about it (especially vs a Mac) It eats of a lot of memory unless you have applications that are made for windows 3.0. The talk about PC Price advantage starts to thin out when you have to lay out more money for memory, a mouse, upgrades to existing software (to use the windows to their real extent) and new software. The bigest gripe we have is that we want to make our PC's part of our network of Vaxs, Unix boxes and Macs. Add a few hundred more to the price and subtract a hundred K from each application partition (for non-windows applicatinos that is). It's really frustration that Microsoft has had nearly ten years to find a way to use more than 1 meg of memory for DOS and can't do it! New DOS versions seem to be larger and larger band-aids for a operating system that continues to fester. And that's the biggest problem with Windows; it's just another DOS shell. I think a better shell is Quarter Deck's! Ok, ok I'll stop rambling. I hope they don't take my Mac away for this. ==================================================================== |Matt Mashyna | As you see, science once again robs us of | |mm5l@andrew.cmu.edu | our jobs. They put a micro-chip in my place.| |Carnegie Mellon | | ====================================================================