I don't have any experience with the Mac, but I will tell you that the needs of
the business world is what has driven the expansion of the use of the so-called
PC's as opposed to the Macs. Marketing played a part, but ultimately it was
business needs. I do have a lot of experience on the PC's, and find that all the
programs that I run perform extremely well on the machines. I'm heavy into
database stuff Numbers crunching ability is what got the PC's a toe-hold in the
business market in the first place. Next came the decision by Big Blue to
release DOS architecture to public domain. That brought a flood of growth and
change in the PC world. Mac has just struggled to keep up. It's beginnings if I
understand correctly, began, and remained focused on the graphics world while
business really needed sophisticated numbers crunching capability that was easy.
Thus the rise of WinDos (pun). It was inevitable that with the huge expansion of
the PC's with the Windows operating system that the graphics would follow.

I suspect that the Macs are still superior for graphics, but where businesses
need broad use with multiple programs, who needs a separte system, when the
graphics programs can run so well on the company business machines.

Just my $0.02. IMHO

John Rodgers
88 GL Driver
Jon Joyce wrote:

> Stan-
>
> I read you... my father is an electrical engineer and a lifelong Mac
> devotee. He started using Macs in '85, but has now had to go with PC desk-
> and laptop systems due to software constraints. He hates them. As a graphic
> designer/art director, I don't have anything to worry about, at least for
> the time being. It's just always confounded me that so many people buy the
> argument that "Windoze" is a superior OS just because it's more popular, and
> that it got to be more popular in the first place! Macs have their quirks,
> but I'm (somewhat) proficient  on PCs, too, and I know what works better for
> me, at least...
>
> JJ
>
> >From: Stan Wilder <wilden1@juno.com>
> >To: okartguy@HOTMAIL.COM
> >Subject: Re: No Vanagon Content
> >Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 14:50:20 -0600
> >
> >Over the years I've used Mac and I must recommend their quality and
> >dependability.
> >However I use many programs that are not available in Mac format. The
> >list would be useless to you but just accept that if it would run on
> >system 7 Mac OS I'd prefer to use it on the mac.
> >
> >Stan Wilder
> >
>
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