Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!usc!apple!portal!cup.portal.com!thad From: thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: How do we change the scheduler? (Was Re: Multitasking at ho Message-ID: <37975@cup.portal.com> Date: 13 Jan 91 10:43:05 GMT References: <17210@cbmvax.commodore. <7504@sugar.hackercorp.com> <42459@ut-emx.uucp> Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 69 awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels) in <42459@ut-emx.uucp> writes (regarding the Mac): I can start up a _bunch_ of apps on a 2 meg Mac (I just have to be selective about what I launch). Not a very user-friendly system if your apps are load-order dependent. >try to do anything useful while formatting a disk. Ask him why he >can't run Yeah, that is a substantial criticism. I mean really, how OFTEN do you need to format a disk? It is nifty to be able to do so and run another task, but it just as easy to format a bunch at once and then go back to work. Oh? I'll tell you what really shows the Mac to be the rotten Apple that it is. My secretary uses a Mac II (for doing all kind of documentation type stuff) and was printing out a bunch of stuff on the Apple Laser printer that was to be our handout material at last month's DECUS in Las Vegas, when I happened to be in her office and asked "Hey, Jude, flip over to the terminal window and I want to show you something on the VAX." She said, "I can't, I'm printing and cannot do anything else for at least 45 minutes." Apple has the audacity and arrogance to claim the Mac makes people productive? BULLSHIT! If it wasn't for the fact we needed those printings NOW and the fact we've been suckered into paying so much for the Mac and its software, I was tempted to grab that CRApple Mac and toss it out the window and over the fence and teach her how to use AmigaTeX on one of the spare office Amigas (which, by the way, prints just nicely onto the same Apple Laser printer). And as for Allen's comment "but it just as easy to format a bunch at once and then go back to work." Again, bullshit. I was just doing some file transfers and noted, "Oh oh, HD is just about full" so I just flipped to a CLI window on the Amiga, formatted a few floppies WHILE THE FILE TRANSFER WAS STILL GOING ON, and then had disks upon which to write the transfer buffs with NO LOSS OF TIME on my part (re: formatting a buncha disks beforehand). Try THAT on your stinking Apple. I have so little respect for the garbage ensuing and spewing forth from Apple that we even "converted" the Finder 7.0 CD ROM disk last month to a playtoy "frisbee" for one of the office worker's kids. Yeah, Apple sends me all kindsa shit each month on 3.5" floppies and CD ROMs; I always reformat the 3.5" floppies for use on my Amigas or 3B1s (lucky for Apple their disk labels don't have permanent adhesive or I'd really be raising a stink, and the different colored disks each month look kinda pretty in my A1010 drives :-), the CD ROMs go to the kids (sometimes there's music on them, too), and the "Apple Developer Tech Notes" are sitting in boxes, unopened. Seems only 1 or 2 pages out of each month's 100-200 page mailing even has anything about A/UX, and, since A/UX 2.0, it's not even worth trying to FIND those 2 pages in the mess buried amongst all the IIgs, MacOS and Lisa crap, let along reading or using it. I'm really not kidding, and now with the BYTE article blasting A/UX publicly, my credibilty and esteem has risen to new heights in my company (regarding all my anti-Apple criticisms). Hmmm, I may even renew my BYTE subscription now (which I dropped several years ago due to their anti-Amiga editorial stance). Thad P.S. And before you start to reply, remember this IS comp.sys.amiga.ADVOCACY where one is expected to flame/be-flamed, and to tout the obvious superiority of the Amiga over everything else. As someone else recently stated, there oughta be a Federal law requiring everyone to buy/own an Amiga! :-) Thad Floryan [ thad@cup.portal.com ]