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- Subject: Mac OS vs. TOS (was Re: Falcon Graphics
- Message-ID: <1992Sep6.144945.12594@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>
- From: rlcollins@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Ryan 'Gozar' Collins)
- Date: 6 Sep 92 14:49:45 -0500
- References: <1992Aug25.124510.2938@aber.ac.uk> <5pyyc3q@rpi.edu> <Bu1Dyu.IA0@gp <1992Sep4.191425.12091@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <10174@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
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- In article <10174@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>, warwick@cs.uq.oz.au (Warwick Allison) writes:
- >>> The only thing that the LCII has is a superior O/S but TOS is
- > dhbutler@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Your Conscience) writes:
- >>I don't agree with your comment about the superior OS, I find the Mac OS
- >>*extremely* user friendly, and *extremely* slow, and *extremely* limited. I
- >>perfer the ST's O/S better in almost all cases...
- >
- > And "user friendly" can definately be extreme. In first-year, we had Macs,
- > and I was editting a program, then accessed a disk from a friend. He took
- > the disk away, then a little later the machine INSISTED that I insert that
- > disk. The only escape was rebooting - losing all my program. The Mac gets
- > very fascist when it comes to floppy disks.
- >
- > Give mw the more subservient OS of the Atari any day.
-
- But don't forget, a command-. would have canceled that dialog box
- so you wouldn't have had to reboot.
-
- Later.......
-
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