Re: Mac vs. PC

Bruce Carter (bcarter@mentor.idbsu.edu)
Tue, 4 Jun 1996 23:58:55 EDT

At 12:21 PM 6/4/96, Russell Smith wrote:
> This is a common answer from the Mac users, but how true is it? Do
>you really think 10% of the programmers produce more software than the
>90% on the PC side? Even excluding games I find it hard to believe that
>there isn't a preponderance of PC programs of all kinds. It would be
>interesting to see some hard statistics about this since it is so often
>bandied about by both camps.

Just because the user distribution is 90/10 doesn't mean the programmer
distribution is the same, but putting that aside there are certainly more
programs available for the PC side of the house. However, professional
published workplace software is about the same. Who cares if there are 47
spreadsheets available for the PC when everyone uses Excel? I do envy you
folks the choice of games, though... *heh*. I've been trying to find a
decent BattleTech game for the Mac for years. I may just have to write
one.

(Oh no! I've given away my attachment to science fiction simulation games,
and after all that time I spent convincing everyone I was a stuffy old
academic type... *darn*!)

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