> I not a Techie myself, but what I've heard recently from friends who are
> is that very soon the differences between DOS and Macs are not going to
> matter...
Neither am I a techie, but the machine you describe sounds more like the
the Power PC Macintosh computer with the new Motorola 68X000 series of
chips of which 1-3 are already in distribution and 20 (for a high end work
station) will be available next year. The Power PC is produced
independently and co-ordinately by both IBM and by Macintosh. It is
able to accomodate MS DOS, OS\2, Unix and Macintosh in simulation mode
being faster than the Pentium chip. But what is on the horizon is an
operating system which will take advantage of the fast chip as it stands
and be very much more economical of through time. Doubtless the
memory management problem associated with Macintosh will be
eliminated in the new OS.But Macintosh while harder to program for
has now a great many programming aids and de-buggers. But it is a
fact that a Macintosh consumer insists on a much higher degree of
work automation.
Macintosh is much in demand for languages which require special
symbols (most of the Canadian First Nations and Inuit use them) it is
favored in the towns that do a lot of publishing (Quebec, Paris,
Frankfurt, Munich) it is also favored by police departments, chemical
laboritories and more and more in schools in central and eastern
Canada.DRC