Mac vs. PC

[Jack Harper]

At 14:14 6/3/97 -0600, you wrote:
>Dear Seelangers,
>        I have been a Mac user for 10 years who, for various reasons, is
>considering gradually switching over to a PC.  Since my colleagues here are
>rather polarized on the question, I would be interested in hearing from
>anyone who has made the switch, or who has extensive experience with both
>systems.
>Among my questions are the following:
>-We use a Mac font called "Moscow" that seems to match none of the other
>homophonic keyboard layouts.  How difficult would it be to write a program
>to convert them all to PC format?
>-Which platform is preferable for Cyrillic e-mail and Internet access?  (I
>have recently learned a lot about Mac cyrillicization, but know little
>about PCs.)
>-Are there any Mac programs (specific to Russian or otherwise) for which a
>PC version is either unavailable or inferior?
>-What are the general pros and cons of the two systems, both in language
>teaching and research?
>Thanks in advance for your advice.
>Laura Goeri ng
>
>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>Laura Goering
>Department of German and Russian
>Carleton College
>Northfield, MN 55057
>(507)-646-4125
>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
>

Dear Ms. Goering...

As a former Macintosh Fanatic (I have six Macs -- including the original
'128K' Mac that I bought in early 1985) that moved over to Windows 95 about
a year ago -- welcome to the world of Windows.

It was, I must say, quite a shock to me -- after all those years -- to
realize that Windows had finally caught up and had, in fact, clearly
surpassed the Macintosh in ease of use etc etc -- the thing is simply better
-- especially the fact that you can have many many activities all going at
once -- which sounds useless -- but is actually of great value (e.g.,
pulling in e-mail while editing something else etc).

Regarding the fonts, I have used a couple of bit-mapped Cyrillic fonts that
I found on a font CD but recommend (obviously) that you find a good
non-bit-mapped font... Sorry that I am not of more help here -- I really
just wanted to commiserate with you about the transition from Mac to Windows
95 (stay away from Windows 3.2 or whatever -- it is truly horrible to a Mac
person -- but Windows 95 is wonderful).

Regards -- and best wishes in your transition

Jack
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