Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!uwm.edu!bionet!agate!shelby!portia.stanford.edu!jessica.stanford.edu!bard From: bard@jessica.stanford.edu (David Hopper) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: How do we change the scheduler? (Was Re: Multitasking at ho Message-ID: <1991Jan18.085624.7710@portia.Stanford.EDU> Date: 18 Jan 91 08:56:24 GMT References: <17210@cbmvax.commodore. <7504@sugar.hackercorp.com> <42459@ut-emx.uucp> <37975@cup.portal.com> <42516@ut-emx.uucp> Sender: news@portia.Stanford.EDU (Mr News) Organization: Academic Information Resources, Stanford University Lines: 41 In article <42516@ut-emx.uucp> awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels) writes: > >Thanks, but it makes people who otherwise wouldn't be very productive with an >IBM very much so with a Mac. I've been using Macs and helping Mac users since >1984. It is a pretty useful machine. Unfortunately, the same interface that >helps those users also makes it difficult to maxmize the machine's potential. I've been a Mac consultant for two years, so I can't claim to have the same level of expertise as you; but to be honest, and not to be caustic, this is a cheesecake job. Perhaps this is saying a lot, if simplicity is what you need in a computer. But I'll be damned if I consider the Macintosh a *serious* productive computer, in the sense that it doesn't provide a useful *integrated* work environment. It is ideal for people who don't normally use computers, or for those who are entranced by Apple's marketing barrage and cannot make valued comparisons of *all* computer architectures and software design schemes. > >Like I said, just because you don't know how to use the machine doesn't mean >it can't do the job. Who suckered you into buying the Mac? Any computer >user that buys a machine without giving it a workout on the kinds of tasks >that they expect of that machine deserves what they get. I agree. Like, perhaps, a $1000 Macintosh Classic? C'mon; good business, perhaps, but I see it more as highway robbery. That damn thing can't do anything but look good on a desk (and that's subject to opinion). >Well, I think there is a difference between a flame and just a bunch whining. >If the Amiga is the superior machine, it will win without a bunch of >uninformed dopes bad-mouthing a machine they don't know very much about. > >I'm very interested in what the Amiga CAN do and not very much interested in >what some people THINK the Mac can't. Just an extremely informed dope here, making a value judgement on what I KNOW the Mac can't do, that the Amiga can. Not that I don't enjoy my job; I mean, didn't Sun Tzu once say "Know your enemy." ;-) ;-) ;-) Dave Hopper | /// Yesterday, CS. | Academic Info Resources | __ /// Today, Anthropology. | Mac & UNIX Sys-Support bard@jessica. | \\\/// | "Somebody get me a job Stanford.EDU | \XX/ Tomorrow: napping in gutters.| with a computer I LIKE"