Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac:51225 comp.sys.mac.programmer:13437 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!intercon!news From: amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Inside Macintosh: Will we ever see a revised, updated edition? Message-ID: <1990Mar23.191614.15947@intercon.com> Date: 23 Mar 90 19:16:14 GMT References: <16759@well.sf.ca.us> <2967@castle.ed.ac.uk> <39765@apple.Apple.COM> Sender: news@intercon.com (USENET The Magnificent) Reply-To: amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker) Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation, Sterling, VA Lines: 46 In article <39765@apple.Apple.COM>, keith@Apple.COM (Keith Rollin) writes: > Something > like SpInside Mac is *nice*, but you don't need it to program your computer. > People have managed to scrape by without it for years now. Also, a lot of this stuff is definitely in the "it's a prototype but it might be useful" category. I've played with SpInside Mac, and frankly, it's not all that useful in real life, although it makes a real nice CD-ROM demo. I'm back to using my 5 volumes of Inside Mac and 3 notebooks full of Tech Notes, for the following reasons (among others): - Size Paper docs don't take up any disk space (I wouldn't advise trying to use SpInside Mac from the CD-ROM--it's too slow). Of course, the stack doesn't take much shelf space, either :-). - Speed I can flip between pages much more quickly than I can flip around in SpInside Mac, especially if I use little scraps of paper (or pens, more often than not) to mark the sections I need at the moment. Part of this is familiarity--after so many years of programming the Mac, I know IM pretty well, and usually know where to find what I need, and I'm not bad at remembering when there's a tech note about something. - Availability Unless you've got an extra Mac on your desk, it's awfully hard to look up stuff while you're sitting in TMON or MACSBUG... SADE would alleviate ths problem if it were faster, and if buggy programs never scrogged MultiFinder... - Visual Appearance Having everything in Monaco 9 with separate buttons for any illustrations is not my idea of an effective style of presentation. Sticking with my paper IM, -- Amanda Walker InterCon Systems Corporation "Dans la vie y'a des hauts pis des bas, des choses qui sont et d'autres qui ne sont pas." --Lucie Blue Tremblay