Hi - > > > > Mac comes out with a machine and O.S. that makes the then Windows look > > > like crap. > > > > Ummm, there _was_ no Windows at that time. The Mac came out in 1984. > > Windows was, from the start, a pretty lame imitation of the Mac and > > other windows-look UIs at the time. > > Sorry. You are right. I was confusing the time I started looking at them > with the time they came out. I didn't buy the Mac because I crashed the > display model twice in fifteen minutes of checking it out. That, of > course, is pretty much past. Most crashes now (once per week in my use of > Mac at work) are the fault of Gates & Co., not of MacOS. > I work at home a lot (whenever I don't _have_ to be at GW) and spend most of those waking hours at the Mac. Currently I have a 7500 with 64mb RAM. I installed System 8 and subsequently 8.1 at Jim Hopper's suggestion. On this machine I run everything from the usual TCPIP stuff (over dialed lines either to GW or via an ISP) - telnet, Fetch. Netscape, etc. etc. to Office 98 and older Microslop versions, to MachTen, to Virtual PC. Often I have many of these running simultaneously; 64mb isn;t enough for MachTen _and_ Virtual PC but I'll buy another 64mb one of these days. I get almost no freezes or crashes anymore. PPP used to disconnect me frequently, but with Sys 8 that has mostly disappeared too. 8.1 is very stable; apps' stability depends on the apps, of course. I use Office 98 only where necessary; I prefer the older versions. Luckily, Gates doeasn;t play quite the games on the Mac that he does on Windows, so it's much easier to install several versions of his stuff. I have a P200, but use it only where I really _need_ it (testing Win-based Ada compilers, etc.). I won;t touch Explorer with a 10-foot pole, on either platform. On pure principle. No problem with Netscape. Mike Feldman