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From: tmyers@athena.mit.edu (Tracy S Myers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Windows 3.0
Message-ID: <1990Jun10.154243.6742@athena.mit.edu>
Date: 10 Jun 90 15:42:43 GMT
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In article <1990Jun10.153244.6180@athena.mit.edu> tmyers@athena.mit.edu (Tracy S Myers) writes:
>In article <27@alchemy.UUCP> thegerm@alchemy.UUCP (Joel Lingenfelter) writes:
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>
Please excuse this garbled message, my news program crashed when
I tried to post it. Below is the (hopefully) intended version.


In article <27@alchemy.UUCP> thegerm@alchemy.UUCP (Joel Lingenfelter) writes:
>
>    I played with it the other day at work, and noticed that the system takes 
>up a mere 8 mb on your hard drive.  In addition, fully installed the thing 
>leaves 192k free in your primary 640k.  Not so hot eh?  Another gripe is that 
>it is not compatible with a significant amount of hardware out there for the 
>ibm world.

If you are going to discuss the weaknesses of a product, please have an
informed opinion.  Specifically, what hardware is it not compatible
with?  Do you know this for certain from experience or is this just gossip?
As for leaving only 192k free in the primary 640k, are you sure about this?
This sounds way out of line with what I have heard from a number of reputable
sources. Without describing the particular system (e.g., network drivers,
TSRs, device drivers, etc.) this tidbit is totally uninformative.  As for 
MSW 3.0 taking 8MB of disk space, consider that several megs of fluff such 
as screen backgrounds and other such stuff is included in that figure.

> My guess is that system 7 will be well worth the wait, and will 
>make windows look as archaic as ms-dos.  I haven't really fooled around 
>extensively with windows yet, but it doesn't seem all that great, me being used
>to the mac interface.

If you haven't used it very much why are you wasting our time?

>It is, however, a considerable improvement over the old 
>windows 286...
>
>Joel Lingenfelter, Biola University
>"I'm just a student so the university speaks for me..."

This thread looks like the beginning of another my computer is better
than yours war. Please, if you are not in a position to make an informed
judgement then post your opinion to comp.National_Enquirer.  

I use Macs, Suns, and DOS machines daily.  I follow both the Mac and
DOS groups.  I am just as tired of listening to bozos who have little or
no direct experience with a Mac telling me how superior MSW 3.0 will be.
I am not an apologist for Apple or IBM.  Intelligent discussion of the 
merits and problems of various platforms is interesting and improves our
ability to make informed decisions. Vague, sweeping, and unsubstantiated
claims only serve to confuse people, and correcting false information
wastes an inordinate amount of resources.  So please if you don't know,
don't post.

Tracy Myers