Mac Cyrillic to PC Cyrillic to Mac Cyrillic

[Genevra Gerhart]

Ladies and Gentlemen,
Let us resolve our Mac/PC problems summarily.  Unfortunately, a little
thought is required, but that should not be a problem to all of us.

Some really quite small proportion of the word uses Mac, right?  And why
are Macs in preponderance in colleges?
Because they were given them.
And why were they given them?
It was a belated effort to ensnare a larger portion of the market.
What does belated mean?
It means too late.
Why do you say that?
Because the rest of the world uses another system.
Is the other system any better?
Whether it is better doesn't matter.  Let us use a familiar example:
instead of operating systems, we will use languages.  Let us imagine
(and this _is_ imagination) that 90 percent of the world is able to use
language x. If speaker of language y wants to communicate with speakers
of language x, then what must that person do?
It must learn language x:  it is foolish to expect language x speakers
(except of course for the occasional aberrant) to accomodate to y
speakers.
It's rather like the metric system in America.  Not in my lifetime, but
eventually we'll get there, since that is the way the world has gone.
And so too, Macs will become historical artifacts, and we'll be able to
talk without all this flailing.
gg
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