Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!src.honeywell.com!msi.umn.edu!cs.umn.edu!kksys!wd0gol!newave!john From: john@newave.UUCP (John A. Weeks III) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: give me solid facts: why is the mac better than MeSsy DOS/WINDOWS Message-ID: <680@newave.UUCP> Date: 3 Mar 91 18:35:20 GMT References: <91.056.16:01:18@ira.uka.de> <672@newave.UUCP> <1991Feb28.015446.16531@eng.ufl.edu> <97235@unix.cis.pitt.edu> Reply-To: john@newave.mn.org (John A. Weeks III) Organization: NeWave Communications Ltd, Eden Prairie, MN Lines: 33 > > > 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. Exactly my point about how easy PC/MS-DOS is to use. The MODE command only looks at the first two characters of your choosen speed. Therefore, 12 = 1200 Buad, 24 = 2400 Baud, 96 = 9600 baud, etc. And MODE is not just for printers. It controls low level stuff on serial comm, parallel comm, and video monitors. I also did not just mean to pick on the mode command. Every DOS command, and their are a bunch of them, have these switches, flags, and parameters. The manual always has a few examples, none of which ever seem to fit the problem that the user has. The biggest problem is to figure out what command to look up. Would anyone ever suspect that a laser printer is set-up using the mode command? Especially after using the same command to change to color graphics? -john- -- =============================================================================== John A. Weeks III (612) 942-6969 john@newave.mn.org NeWave Communications ...uunet!rosevax!tcnet!wd0gol!newave!john ===============================================================================