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From: aru@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Sriram Ramkrishna)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.games,comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Mac and Amiga (Games--Macintosh vs A500)
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Date: 10 Mar 91 22:50:25 GMT
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In article <1991Mar10.182432.9314@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu> mitroo@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Varun Mitroo) writes:
>
>drive!?!  Why?  I wanted to save the file on another disk.  No problem, I
>thought, I'll just click the "cancel" box.  Wait a minute... There is no
>cancel box!  The machine was completely dead until I replaced THAT SAME DISK
>into the drive.  I had to go running around campus trying to find my friend
>with that disk just so I could stick it into that stupid drive for that


Yeah, I have had this problem happen to me a lot, it is very annoying.  However,
did you know that you can do a <command> <.> and it should get rid of the
requester?  Amiga handles it better of course. :-)  Still, things like that is
not very productive in my opinion.
>precious second until it changed disks.
>
>I don't know.  To me this is not what computing is all about.  Trying to put
>the cursor over a word with the mouse on a puny flickering black & white 9"

I can certainly agree with you there!  I don't like small monitor, and that
is too small for me.  Most of the time I am squinting at the screen.  Thats
why I use the MacIIs in the lab.  Much better..Yeah yeah I know you can replace
the monitor with something else...big deal.  Extra cost.


>screen is not my idea of advanced word processing.  When I tried printing the
>file, I had to WAIT 20 MINUTES for the printout.  The proctor working there
>told me this is normal, AppleTalk is just slow.  Remember:  "Only a Macintosh
>gives you so much power to do so many things so quickly and so easily."

Hmmm, we run an apple talk system here, and I don't find it slow at all.  
We have about 35 MacII under appletalk and they are quite fast.  Better
than the novell network we have.

>
>PS - When was the last time Apple actually came out with anything innovative
>rather than a rehash of old technology?  What other company is bringing a new
>product with a 68000 in it for $1000?

Agreed.  I don't think Apple has really come up with anything.

One of my largest complaints that I have about the Mac is data integrity.  I
have had cases where I would insert a mac disk, find it is okay then take 
out and put it back in and it wouldn't work.  Also for no reason, a Mac could
crash without any sort of explanation of why.  Users would bitch and moan to
me and I could not give them an explanation of why they lost a part of their
file or anything like that.  One funny case was when I had a friend who 
complained that his disk was not working.  I took his disk, shook it like
hard and gave it a small tap and inserted into the drive.  Meanwhile, my
friend is looking at me with complete disbelief.  Needless to say, the disk
was recognized. :-)

	Sri (aru@mentor.cc.purdue.edu)

	Sri