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On Wed, 25 Sep 2024 16:37:07 -0500, chrisv wrote:

> Oh, come on.  The Mac is a reasonble choice of computer.  There's all
> kinds of people in the world, you know.

I'm remonded of that all too frequently. With the exception of the Mac-
mini we used for the doomed iPhone project I've only worked for one 
company that had Macs. The original toaster was one of the few systems to 
meet TEMPEST requirements at the time. Those were only for doumenters; 
programming used PCs. The target device was the Ti 9900. That decision was 
driven by it being rad hard rather than any technical superiority.

Having never used a Mac I can't criticize it. The last time I shopped for 
a computer without a specific OS in mind was about 30 years ago. I looked 
at the Apple price tags and then I looked at the PC price tags. I asked 
the salesman what justified the difference and he came up empty. Maybe if 
he had been a better salesman...