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- From: jrg@punch (James R. Goble)
- Subject: Re: YA Mac horror story
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.155352.975@speedy.aero.org>
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- References: <kfNAq3u00VqJ0_SUkW@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 15:53:52 GMT
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- In article <kfNAq3u00VqJ0_SUkW@andrew.cmu.edu> cj00+@andrew.cmu.edu (Carl
- B Jabido) writes:
- > Well, where should I start? I guess that dreadful day when my prof told
- > me we'd be using Object Pascal Genie for the class (surprisingly written
- > here at CMU on Macs, by a bunch of computer illiterates). Into my head
- > popped up images of dialog boxes like "Cannot quit, not enough memory.
- > Push okay." Or even, "Low on memory, some functions will be disabled,"
- > after just opening a 29000 byte program. I didn't even run it. Didn't
- > even edit it! By the way, this is all on a IIci with 8 megs of Physical
- > ram.
- >
- > Well, I decided I'd see what software this Mac had, so I started looking
- > around. Of course, I couldn't quit Genie Pascal because of low memory,
- > so I was using a crippled Mac. I loaded up MacWrite II. Pretty cool,
- > pretty neat. I closed that window. I then loaded up Mathematica.
- > Pretty cool, pretty neat. I closed that window. Because I'm so lucky
- > with Macs, I started looking around again, and all of a sudden, the
- > system locked up. Why? Well, I was closing only the document, not the
- > whole app. But wait, most other systems close the app when you close
- > the document, so why not the Mac? I mean, it makes sense; if I'm not
- > gonna work on Document X which uses MacWrite II, why should Macwrite II
- > be loaded in the system?
- > The stupid cluster people disabled cntrl-openapple-reset, so I had to
- > turn it off and on. No big deal, but why they did it is still beyond
- me.
- > So, now I'm up and running again. The stupid cluster people left
- > virtual memory off: how stupid. So, I up it to 10 megs, so I can run
- > the God forbidden Pascal Genie. I goto chooser and find the right
- > server. Log in, and now, all of a sudden, the system locks up. No cute
- > little watch cursor. What's going on? Oh, there it is, two small
- > arrows up in the corner, a place not normally looked at. Network access
- > I guess. Okay, I have my system again. I double click on the new
- > volume (very nice implementation! In fact, that's what OS/2 does too).
- > Okay, I traverse the server till I get to my class section. Wow, Mac's
- > built in network is slower than my NFS connection across the country;
- > hmmm. After 1 minute of no usage time, I get to use the system again.
- > Wow, the file I need is 512k. Should I do it? Ahh, I guess there's no
- > other way. After a 2 minute file transfer of only 512k, it returns
- > control too me. I note that I could have made the same file transfer
- > over FTP at a little over 1.3E3 bytes per second on my "horrible OS/2
- > PC."
- > I ftp everything to my computer, so I can do my work on my system
- > instead. So, I ftp to my ftp server on my computer. I transfer
- > everything, again noting that transfer rates were only about 8k per
- > second. I attribute that to the Mac of course. I also try transferring
- > something from my computer to the Mac. I then realize that Macs have a
- > limit of 32 characters on filenames. Much smaller than 256.
- >
- > Jeez, what a relief to get out of there.
- >
- > Carl Jabido
- >
- > ps- that was mostly true. the exaggerated parts weren't exaggerated
- > that much, at least no more than 10%. BTW, I'm not that stupid, I'm
- > just making obvious remarks. Just to piss off some Mac owners. I had
- > to wake you up to the fact that Macs aren't the ultimate computer.
- > There are some nice things about the system. Generally however, I don't
- > like it. It may be easy to use, in fact, I'll personally vouch for the
- > fact that it's probably the easiest computer to use to date.
-
- Gee Carl,
- You seem like an intelligent guy, or at least you claim to be. If you
- don't like the Mac, don't use it. I'm sure a wave of apathy would sweep
- through the entire Mac community.
-
- Jim Goble,
- Los Angeles
-