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- From: psheffield@earthlink.net (Patrick Sheffield)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Amiga Technology is insulting!!y
- Date: 29 Mar 1996 23:04:41 GMT
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- >Patrick Sheffield (psheffield@earthlink.net) wrote:
-
- >: People are always using formatting a floppy as an example, but this is not
- >: real- world enough. Let's consider something I have to do on a daily basis
- >: - Copying files. The Mac does not /cooperate/ on this front. When I have to
- >: move several
- >: *gigabytes* around (as I do when dealing with AV files, the Mac is
- >: *unusable* for upwards of 30 minutes, this is not the case on the Amiga.
-
- > Copying files makes it unusable? What Mac are you using? (I don't
- >even see much slowdown on mine while doing huge copies, but I've got
- >a relatively new machine.)
-
- Well, it's not a 9500, but it is an 8100 with 64 meg of ram and an ATTO scsi
- controller. I'm not referring to the speed of the computer, rather the
- /cooperation/ of the OS. I don't know what version your are running, but on
- 7.5 when I drag a file from one drive to another and the little progress
- window comes up, I can't use the finder for anything else until the copy has
- completed.
-
- >: Personally I think Amiga users and Mac users have a lot in common,
- >: like the fact
- >: that Mac appears to be heading to where the Amiga is now (completely
- >: eclipsed by : the incredible bulk of crap that is Wintel...
-
- > The Mac will die when Microsoft creates an OS with as good an
- >interface and as extensive a set of 'extras' (QuickTime and so on) as the
- >Mac OS. In other words, never. :-) The Win94^H5^H6 interface is still
- >a clumsy hack, IMO. Yes, the pundits drool and ooh and ahh, but I don't
- >buy it. Intuativeness seems to still be a foriegn concept to MS, and I
- >can't shake the feeling that what the designers REALLY wanted was a
- >better DOS with window dressing. :-) ('Enter a file name and path and
- >Windows will open it for you!' This is a joke, right?)
-
- I'm refering to the general availability of software. I just know that when I
- walk into a mall software store, the Mac section is pitifully small compared to
- the overwhelming mass of PC stuff. And /yes/ I know about mail order, but this
- is the same spot the Amiga was in a few years back. I certainly hope the Mac
- doesn't fall by the wayside, but I don't discount the possibility...
-
- Patrick Sheffield
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