Re: [MacPerl] UNIX "system" command (fwd)

[mark@cheers.jsc.nasa.gov (Mark Manning/Muniz Eng.)]

According to Nat Irons:
> It would appear that Apple is setting groundwork for a future conflict,
> that in five years it's not going to be an Apple/Microsoft decision but a
> Unix/NT decision.  Apple is proposing the consolidation of power and beauty
> over an alternative with neither and nobody's... paying... attention.  Yet.

An off topic discussion again eh?  :-)
(Always livens things up a bit.  Not that the discussion on
the list is boring or anything.  It is anything BUT
boring.  Especially with some of the code which is thrown
out there by Chris, Paul, et al.)

Anyway...  I think Apple's commercials are really off the
spot when it comes to talking about their products.  What
they need to do (IMHO) is to have a series of commericals
where a Mac and an IBM is taken apart and then show what
all is needed to buy for the IBM in order to make it match
what the Macs do without any additional hardware.  Then
show a price comparison of the two systems in another
commercial.  Finally, starting from scratch, put the two
systems together, install the OS's only, and then show what
all you can do without installing anything else.  I'm sure
that if Apple showed the basics of why the Macs are so much
easier to use that a lot of business people would jump off
of the IBM ship and onto the Macintosh one.

Or maybe they could pull a coup and have a one hour show
during prime time where they show "What the clone makers
don't want you to know."  Eh Vicki?  Eh?  ;-)

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