Re: How ATTRACTIVE is CoCoa development?
Re: How ATTRACTIVE is CoCoa development?
- Subject: Re: How ATTRACTIVE is CoCoa development?
- From: "Erik M. Buck" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 22:17:51 -0600
- Organization: EMB & Assocites Inc.
I won't dispute your experience.
My university did not contain a single Mac from 1987 to 1991 when I was
there.
A few years ago the local public school district board with 27,000 students
voted to remove all Macs from the school. Two year old Macs went into
dumpsters. I teach in a private school. There is one Mac in every class
room, but none run OS X and many are not plugged in. There is not much
computer use. The teachers all have Wintel PCs on a little table next to
their desks. The shared computer lab is all PCs.
I have never seen a Mac that was accessible to students at the University of
Iowa. The CS department secretary has a Mac. The department head has an
old SGI machine. The labs all have Wintel.
I used to proctor for the ACM student programming contest. I never saw a
Mac.
I own a small but successful software business. We have one Mac and it was
purchased for a very special uncommon reason.
I have Fortune 100 customers and none of the have any Macs. One tried to
give old Macs from the marketing department to local schools, but they would
not take them.
The same company's IT department has rules forbidding the addition of Macs
to networks even though old DEC workstations are still connected.
Except for TV, it is pretty hard to see a Mac in Iowa.
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