Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!eng.ufl.edu!sparky.cis.ufl.edu!smg From: smg@sparky.cis.ufl.edu (Scot M. Gardner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: give me solid facts: why is the mac better than MeSsy DOS/WINDOWS Message-ID: <1991Mar1.193406.22014@eng.ufl.edu> Date: 1 Mar 91 19:34:06 GMT References: <1991Feb28.015446.16531@eng.ufl.edu> <97235@unix.cis.pitt.edu> Sender: news@eng.ufl.edu Organization: UF CIS Dept. Lines: 32 In article francis@uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke) writes: >In article <97235@unix.cis.pitt.edu> macman@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Dennis H Lippert) writes: > > In article <1991Feb28.015446.16531@eng.ufl.edu> scot@sun1.ise.ufl.edu (Scot Gardner) writes: > > >>6. The Mac does not require you to type "MODE COM1:12,N,8,,P" > >Nor does the IBM PC. When did you last use a 12 baud printer? > >The Mac would not even THINK of letting you use it (: > Obviously, the point of the comment was lost! > >Besides which, he's wrong. A Mac's printer driver handles >*everything* for the app. All you'd have to do to use a 12 baud >printer would be plug it in, copy the driver into the System Folder, >select it from the Chooser, and print. From _ANY_ app--none of this >garbage about having a special driver for each program/printer >combination that needs to handle graphics. > >Of course, after selecting "Print" from the menu, you would be obliged >to starve to death waiting for the printer, but that's not the Mac's >fault. :-) > I see, and how does one go about building this print driver?? You think APPLE has one?? -- | University Of Florida | | Computer and Information Sciences & Industrial and Systems Engeenering | | Scot M. Gardner, Resident Computer Jock | | scot@sun1.ise.ufl.edu smg@reef.cis.ufl.edu smg@hindmost.math.ufl.edu |