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- From: trimble@ph-meter.beckman.uiuc.edu (Chris Trimble)
- Subject: Re: "Windoze" slow? Naah...Re: pc and mac: was RE: 486 and mac benchmarks
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 02:13:42 GMT
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- cbusch@ub.d.umn.edu (Chris) writes:
-
- > The mac mouse appears not to be accelerated. The mouse pointer
- >didnt move as nicely as microsoft mice. (Not to mention the mouse has
- >only one button.
-
- The one button thing is a good point. However, it is too often the case
- that on these systems with 3 buttons, the programmers make confusing
- button combinations . [Wasn't that what the mouse was suppossed to
- replace in the first place?]
-
- > If the mac is suppose to be truly a multitasking system, then why do
- >you have to load multifinder on top of the mac os?
-
- Well, I just want to know if you're comparing it to Windows here. If so,
- I'm afraid you should take a second look at Windows. Windows is a GUI
- (graphical user interface) that runs on top of DOS. It does not have
- protected memory or any of the other benefits that most OSes have
- (the Mac doesn't either), like SunOS or OS/2.
-
- > If macs are catching on so much then why has windows os sold more
- >copies than all the macs sold?
-
- I just want to point out that Windows, although it may be an OS of
- sorts (virtual memory is the only thing that warrants this claim), is
- not a good OS at all. There is no memory protection! It's totally
- ridiculous that one crash actually brings down the system. This
- is my main gripe about the MacOS as well - so don't think I'm just
- picking on Windows.
-
- > Why is it, that macs are only compared to pc's that are base models,
- >despite the fact that very inexpensive add-ons exist for the pc.
-
- Wait, and they don't for the Macintosh? If you're taking about
- Sound Blaster - sorry, but most people have more serious things to do
- with their Macs than play "Wing Commander II" (BTW - don't forget that
- DOS machines have the biggest game market out there. Don't think people
- are just buying them for BUSINESS....). Are you talking about Ether cards?
- $150. SCSI cards .. oh, that's right - that's built into the Macintosh :)
- Um... mouse cards? oh -- that's also built into the Mac. Video cards? Well,
- unless you need more than 16-bit graphics (IIvx), which 95% of people
- DON'T anyway, you won't need one of those for the Mac, either.
-
- > Why hasnt motorola keep up to pace with intel with product design?
-
- Good point. Motorola had a hard time producing the 040 at first, so there
- weren't a whole lot off of the assembly line right away. As far as
- cutting the data busses in half, like Intel does for the 486sx, 386sx, etc,
- why does make Intel more advanced with product design. Motoroller is working
- on the PowerChip as much as Intel is working on the P5, I'm sure.
-
- > If the mac was so successful, why are so many mac software companies
- >porting over their apps to windows?
-
- Like one other person has already said, to have a cross-platform base.
- I could say the same thing : why have all of the MS-DOS vendors (Lotus,
- WordPerfect) moved to the Macintosh, NeXT, Suns, SGIs, etc? I guess
- it's because the DOS machines are goin' nowhere :)
-
- > If macs are so easy to use, then why is it that in our computers
- >labs that macs are generally unused. (This is very true.)
-
- Heh. Probably because the operators are too short-sighted to figure
- out how to link them together - so people can ACTUALLY DO THEIR WORK
- BETWEEN THE TWO (yes, it can be done!). So people who have always had
- their work on the PCs stay there because there isn't an effort to try
- to even out the usage in the lab (by buying WordPerfect/Mac, Lotus123/Mac)
-
- >Apparently, the only decent macs are big macs and whoppers are better
- >anywaz.
-
- Heh. I think you had some kind of strange serial collision with that
- IBM-style keyboard. Your "ys" at the end of "anyways" came out as a "z".
- Hm. Look into that.
-
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