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From: charles@teslab.lab.OZ (Charles W. Widepy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: MACS & IBMS (pc's)
Message-ID: <764@teslab.lab.OZ>
Date: 1 Jun 90 06:38:57 GMT
References: <20472@snow-white.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: charles@teslab.lab.oz.au (Charles W. Widepy)
Organization: T.E.S.L.A.B.
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In article <20472@snow-white.udel.EDU> CCUCARD%indsvax1.bitnet@uicvm.uic.edu (Paul Cardwell) writes:
> [a pretty haphazard and erroneous comparison of Mac and Amiga]
>...
>Macintosh needs to design a program to let you see everything thats on the
>disk, and I do not mean the HEX code.

You can see everything on a disk - all files on a Mac have an icon
(except hidden files) - this is better than the Amiga for people who
don't want to mess with the CLI.  There are also programs like
disktop which allow you to see all files on the disk including hidden
ones.

>Macintosh needs to be able to multitask! ...   I also like to do other
>things at the same time. ...

To the user the Mac does appear to multitask.  Remember multifinder.
If the programs are 100% multifinder co-operative you can do word
processing and file downloads etc simultaneously.  The real advantage
to proper (pre-emptive) multitasking as on the Amiga is to the
programmer (and indirectly the user) where it makes life much
simpler.

What I really found annoying about the Mac IIcx that I use is that
the system won't let you do other things while copying files or
formatting a disk - very frustrating!  Also when opening a file using
the standard file requester you can't do anything - not even move a
window which is obscuring the file name you want to see!!!

> [a pretty haphazard and erroneous comparison of MSDOS and Amiga]

An MSDOS clone can do anything an Amiga can with the appropriate
add-ons. Windows, mouses, sound cards, RAM disks, even several
multitasking additions (but lots of problems and no intertask comms
etc).

MHO and some facts.  I don't want a flame war but I couldn't let
these inaccuracies pass.

Charles.