Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!infotel!smunews!ti-csl!skbat!dittman From: dittman@skbat.csc.ti.com (Eric Dittman) Newsgroups: comp.os.misc Subject: Re: Mac/Amiga religious war (was: Macintosh OS) Message-ID: <67.2687c62e@skbat.csc.ti.com> Date: 27 Jun 90 01:31:42 GMT References: <26637.266e6ed4@vaxb.acs.unt.edu> <6567@scolex.sco.COM> <1990Jun9.021855.8767@wolves.uucp> <1990Jun17.142040.21492@math.lsa.umich.edu> <3L24UYE@xds13.ferranti.com> <55.267e2342@skbat.csc.ti.com> Organization: Texas Instruments Component Test Facility Lines: 58 In article , peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: > ... Anyway, this is off the track... When has that ever stopped a discussion in a newsgroup before? :-) > In article <55.267e2342@skbat.csc.ti.com> dittman@skbat.csc.ti.com (Eric Dittman) writes: >> Untrue. I am a Mac owner that insists that the cooperative multitasking >> available under Multifinder is a kludge that is only tolerated because >> it's better than no multitasking. > > Well, then you're not a Mac Zealot (TM someone, I'm sure), so I wasn't talking > about you. I know the type you mean. I guess this is a knee-jerk reaction due to local conversations with AmigaZealots (also TM someone, probably) who lump all Mac owners in the same group. Sorry. >> I like the smooth operation of the >> Amiga multitasking. I just never liked the Amiga's GUI. > > I must admit that the Mac GUI is pretty damn snazzy. I hate the one-button > mouse and pull-down menus, but they're (damn it) catching on. I don't mind the pull-down menus. I would like more than one button on the mouse, though. I'd like to see Apple introduce a mouse with three buttons. Maybe Apple will bring out a multi-button mouse when they bring out their OS with preemptive multitasking (System 8 maybe?). Sure, there will be some compatibility problems with the older Mac mouses, but then again, there will be compatibility problems with the old Mac software. I'm in the minority that would like to see Apple go ahead and get everything changed now, rather than changing things bit-by-bit. If we're going to break, lets really break! >> I wouldn't say the Amiga is at least 25 years ahead of the competition, > > Well, historically. In terms of operating system history, the Amiga is > somewhere in the early '80s. The underlying O/S on the Mac and IBM are > somewhere in the early '60s. 20 years, then. > -- > Peter da Silva. `-_-' > +1 713 274 5180. > While I'd put MSDOS in the '60s category, I would put the MacOS in more of a mid- to late '70s category. The MacOS was designed with the future in mind, unfortunately there were a few places where Apple aimed in the wrong direction. Eric Dittman Texas Instruments - Component Test Facility dittman@skitzo.csc.ti.com dittman@skbat.csc.ti.com Disclaimer: I don't speak for Texas Instruments or the Component Test Facility. I don't even speak for myself. I also don't guess I speak for the MacZealots either. BTW, what is the " `-_-' " symbol supposed to be?