Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!cs.ed.ac.uk!cs.edinburgh.ac.uk!nick From: nick@cs.edinburgh.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: Norton v. SUM II (& DeskTop files & ...) Keywords: compare/contrast Message-ID: <1182@skye.cs.ed.ac.uk> Date: 31 Oct 90 13:42:25 GMT References: <13738@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> <1990Oct30.231854.2545@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: nnews@cs.ed.ac.uk Reply-To: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk Organization: Wavetables 'R' Us Lines: 36 In article <1990Oct30.231854.2545@midway.uchicago.edu>, kmc4@quads.uchicago.edu (keith matthew cardoza) writes: > > There's no contest. Norton Utilities wins hands down. Hah, guess who just bought SUM II... :-( Does Norton have all the other stuff (in particular, partitioning and file protection)? As a previous article of mine said, SUM II is pretty good at protection except when partition files get corrupted. The SUM-II user interfaces are a bit tacky, but it does the job. How much would I have to may for Norton (I paid around #100 for SUM-II). > The optimizer > (Speed Disk) is incredible. Optimizes to 100% defragmentation. So does SUM-II, unless I'm missing something here... One problem that's going to crop up - when we're all running Desktop Manager, these optimisers are probably going to break, since D.M. seems to keep its Desktop files open all the time. At least, under the current scheme, I can blow away the Finder with an ExitToShell FKEY to optimise volumes (or, use UniFinder)... System 7.0 is going to be great fun for all users of these utilities, I can tell... > Keith Cardoza E-mail : kmc4@midway.uchicago.edu -- Nick Rothwell, Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh. nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk !mcsun!ukc!lfcs!nick ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ "Now remember - and this is most important - you must think in Russian."