In the early 80s my sister insisted MAC was the best platform on which to place a small IMS hierarchical database and teach IMS to mainframe programmers.
Smart sister.
At the time, both platforms were primitive, but the Mac was already ahead of the PC. If you needed to draw pictures for a training program, the Mac was your obvious choice.
Interestingly, around that time, Microsoft Excel for the Mac was light-years ahead of Lotus for the PC. That was true up until about 1993. Microsoft's reign over the desktop didn't really start until Windows for Workgroups.