[geeks] Re: Help me convert a computer illiterate to an iMac!

[Dave McGuire]

On Tuesday, January 7, 2003, at 10:10 AM, Gavin Hubbard wrote:
> When I was a student I worked in a Mac based publishing company 
> (System 7.5 and onwards). I've got some nightmare stories about Macs 
> and their vaunted publishing apps (-:

   I think your experience there is pretty unusual.  Though I personally 
despise MacOS Classic (and despised Macs themselves until the G3/G4 
machines started hitting the streets).

> Windows NT/2000/XP did a nice job in bringing modern OS essentials 
> like memory management and task scheduling down to the consumer level 
> (the architecture of WinNT is pretty solid - Dave Cutler et al).

   I think your experience is pretty unusual there too.  I'm glad you've 
had better luck with it than most of the rest of the world.

       -Dave

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