Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga.misc:1646 comp.sys.mac.misc:9454 Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!dsinc!bagate!cbmvax!amix!vanth!jms From: jms@vanth.UUCP (Jim Shaffer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Mac and Amiga (Games--Macintosh vs A500) Message-ID: Date: 12 Mar 91 18:42:48 GMT References: <98707@unix.cis.pitt.edu> <1991Mar4.031438.21675@kessner.denver.co.us> <27373@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <1991Mar10.182432.9314@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu> <45435@ut-emx.uucp> Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Organization: The Search For Terrestrial Intelligence Lines: 49 In article <45435@ut-emx.uucp> awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels) writes: > >What do you mean "you loaded in [your] paper off the disk"? Just because you >opened a file does NOT mean the entire document is in memory. Well, the average user is probably not going to expect pseudo-virtual-memory in his word processor! Besides, doesn't this make scrolling through the file slower? >Well, if you spent some time reading the basic Mac docs learning that the >command-period key cancels most operations you'd have been able to get out of >that situation. There isn't a computer around without some of those "gotchas". When I was in college, if I walked into a Mac lab to do something (this was before I owned an Amiga!) I usually couldn't find any manuals if my life depended on it. I certainly never saw the actual Mac system manuals, as opposed to the applications manuals. Why not put a "cancel" button in the requester? And I thought one of the selling points of the Mac was that end-users didn't have to know anything about the OS? >That annoying feature saves many users from overwriting information on disks >they inadvertantly swapped out. The Amiga also tracks disks by volume name, but it also has a "cancel" button right in the open where you can see it. And for some reason, the times I've had to replace an Amiga floppy have never been as annoying (or as frequent) as the times I've had to replace a Mac floppy. >What utter bullshit. Go post in forum where you know something about what >you're talking. Apple is selling you a machine with a 512k ROM, good >sound output, built-in networking, hi-density floppy drive, SCSI interface, >and and extensible keyboard/mouse bus for list price of $1000 (who pays list?) But what are they doing with that 512k ROM? They're not even multi-tasking! Good sound output? I assume you mean through the built-in speakers? Or have they added RCA jacks now? And what about color? (I admit you've got me on the networking and SCSI, but I can't think of any reason I'd need an "extensible keyboard/mouse bus." Plus, Apple's attitude toward their "rights" to their look-and-feel is repulsive, to put it kindly. Please note, followups to comp.sys.amiga.advocacy! -- * From the disk of: | jms@vanth.uucp | "There's UFOs over New Jim Shaffer, Jr. | amix.commodore.com!vanth!jms | York, and I ain't too 37 Brook Street | uunet!cbmvax!amix!vanth!jms | surprised." Montgomery, PA 17752 | 72750.2335@compuserve.com | (John Lennon)