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From: awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels)
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Subject: Re: Mac and Amiga (Games--Macintosh vs A500)
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Date: 11 Mar 91 19:10:04 GMT
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In article <1991Mar10.182432.9314@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu> mitroo@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Varun Mitroo) writes:

>Okay, I'd like to see any mac lover justify this:  Last year, I was working
>on an important paper on a mac.  I was using WordPerfect, I think.  Anyway,
>I loaded in my paper off the disk, and gave the disk to a friend who had some
>of her things on it.  No problem, I thought - I'll just save the updated file
>onto another disk or on the hard drive.  Wrong!!  When I tried saving the file,

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.  

>a requester came up asking for "such and such disk" to be replaced in the
>drive!?!  Why?  I wanted to save the file on another disk.  No problem, I

Could it be that it needed part of the file to save to the other disk?   Hmm.

>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

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".

>with that disk just so I could stick it into that stupid drive for that
>precious second until it changed disks.

That annoying feature saves many users from overwriting information on disks
they inadvertantly swapped out.

>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"
>screen is not my idea of advanced word processing.  When I tried printing the

Poor thing, I bet you have the same problem opening your mailbox.  That little
door is soooo much smaller than your front door (even though the keys are 
roughly the same size.)  Get a clue.  10 point type is 10 point type.

>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."

So your proctor is brain-dead about Mac stuff.  AppleTalk is slow for many users
printing to ImageWriters.  It is not slow for one.  Your situation is typical
for lab setups where they have tens of people accessing network resources all 
at once.

>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?

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?)

Please describe to me the comparable product you were thinking of.