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From: toddpw@tybalt.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
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Subject: Re: CLUE: IT'S A HOME MACHINE!
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Date: 5 May 90 08:09:54 GMT
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jayg@wpi.wpi.edu (Jay Giurleo) writes:

> I can customize my Mac without waiting eons for it to boot the finder.

Chances are your Mac has a hard drive and the GS doesn't. Makes a world
of difference. If your GS has a hard drive, get a DMA SCSI card. That makes
a world of difference too.

> However, I can also program the Mac. And it's not as
>difficult as some people might believe.  Yes it does more, but it
>has managers and other routines which do the dirty work for you.  Maybe
>it's more restrained as far as having ultimate control over the whole
>machine, but it is much more refined.

The GS toolbox is more refined than the Mac in its basic design. Desktop
grunge is made easier by TaskMaster, a call that handles many system events
for you. GS/OS based programs are capable of the same sophistication as Mac
programs -- the hardware as it currently stands just doesn't do them justice.
A 7 mhz transwarp pretty much fixes that.

>I hate word processing on my GS.  Have you ever word processed on a Mac?
>The only word processor I'll use on my GS is Appleworks Classic.  Why?
>I don't have to wait for it.

Well, I use AW Classic on the GS because I hate waiting for the Macs! Many of
the Mac's fonts are annoying to read in 9 point or less anyway, so I just edit
in AW Classic and use a Mac to add fonts before I print. Next year I will have
an Appletalk hookup in my room and I will use AW GS instead.

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu