Re: history, sigs, unix, rhapsody.....
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Re: history, sigs, unix, rhapsody.....
UNSUBSCRIBE LIST-MACINTOSH-VS-PC-AND-A-BUNCH-OF-CRAP-ABOUT-RHAPSODY.
Take this crap into private E-mail, frankly 95% of this list doesn't give a
damn.
At 09:22 PM 7/25/97 -0400, you wrote:
>>>Nick Zitzmann No WWW page at this time.
>>>(Resident Macintosh Tweaker)
>>> Windows 95:
>>> From the people who brought
>>you
>>> EDLIN!
>---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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>>
>>
>>So as you can see Rhapsody is based off Unix. So I could say:
>> Rhapsody:
>> From the people who brought you vi
>>
>>Eli Allen eallen@mail.bcpl.lib.md.us
>>
>>ICQ# 669742
>>
>
>Dear Eli,
>YOU ARE SO WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG
>Nick's just having a little fun. Let me point out that MS wrote both
>EDLIN AND Win95. Apple is writing Rhapsody, NOT AT&T Bell Labs (are they
>Lucent now?) who did write vi. I thank you for the history lesson which
>is accurate as far as I know, but I think that Nick's sig tries to point
>out the reputation of the company which is "revolutionizing" the pc.
>(about 11+ years after the it already happened....) *** I.E. MS = BS,
>then and now. *** Whearas Apple has probably has some flops too, but
>has consistiently been on the cutting edge if you take a look at the
>really big picture. And although you may question Apple's ability to
>survive, they still put out some of the highest quality (and coolest) SW
>and some screamin' fast boxes.
>I'm not just defending Nick here, I'm defending Apple. I use both Macs
>and Wintels and out of experience I know that neither is perfect but
>that wintels just plain ˇˇsuck!! because no one has had a chance to
>redesign them as Apple has several times and consequently they've gotten
>very, very screwed up.
>
>Erik B.
>Staysail@Juno.com
>
>
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