>Tom,
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>The Apple OS is a much better one, especially since it was designed from the ground up to be GUI. Then again it was built against a proprietary hardware environment. The downside here is...well...what's Apple's market share? You could say the same about IBM. They bet the ranch on a proprietary bus (the Micro-channel). Whoops.:-)
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>Having open systems may present more choices to the consumer. I believe, however, that such also introduce more problems to deal with.

George;

We get what we pay for. Sometimes it is just more fun than others.

Tom