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Re: Computers

At 2:39 PM -0600 2/28/97, bob foley wrote:
I fully agree with the statement above, EXCEPT for the
availibilty of equal amounts of software applications.
PC software far exceeds the currently available
software for Mac's.

But what have you got that a Mac user really lacks? You have 50 word
processors to choose from (3 or 4 good ones), Mac people have 6-8 to choose
from (3 or 4 good ones); you have 83 spreadsheets to choose from, Mac
people choose from 5 or 6 (and still get one as good); you choose from 10
database programs, Mac users choose from 5. True, there are fewer software
choices on the Mac side, but still plenty to give us at least one good
choice in each category. How many word processors (or browsers or
spreadsheets or...) can a body use?

To my knowledge, there aren't very many truly unique software packages that
are PC-onl, and there are probably an equal number of truly unique packages
that are Mac-only.

Larry