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From: mpierce@ewu.UUCP (Mathew Pierce)
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Subject: Re: Mac and Amiga (Games--Macintosh vs A500)
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Date: 13 Mar 91 01:35:45 GMT
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[stuff deleted about WP requesting user to put missing disk into Mac, with no
option but to find the disk, or reboot and lose all.  ie NO CANCEL BUTTON ON REQUESTER!
> >					Varun Mitroo
> >					mitroo@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
> > 
> >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?
> 1) The reason WordPerfect did not satisfy you is because it is simply a port over 
> from the DOS version.  If it implemented the user interface in the way that 
> Apple specifies, you would have had a "Cancel" box, etc., etc.  (WordPerfect 
> 2.0 seems much better though).  Don't blame the Mac for WordPerfect putting 
> out a sorry product, just switch to Word or MacWrite II.
I don't know about wordperfect, but I had this same experience with our SE here in
the lab - I put in my disk, did some work, and removed it, but its icon remained. I
then clicked on the disk, and a requester poped up telling me to put my disk back in,
the requester had no cancel button what so ever - my options were to either put the 
disk back in, or reboot.  This is the SYSTEM software, not an app, so what's the deal?
[stuff about appletalk not being ethernet deleted]
> 3)  Apple comes out with more innovative products than any other computer 
> company.  What company has slashed prices like Apple?
Name an innovative product that isn't a repackageing of old technology.  Slashing
prices is not innovative.
                                                        What company has 
> introduces new models almost every single year?  
These new models are repackages, they are not innovative, changing the number of
expansion slots is not innovative.  Selling a unit with a hard drive already 
packaged in it is not innovative.  Heck, MacWorld even called Apple the least 
innovative computer comapany of all, the stopped being innovative long ago.
>                                                   Face it, Apple is on the 
> cutting edge.
Apple is certainly breaking new ground in the legal area, but that's about it.  If
they spent as much money on innovation, as they do on lawsuits, they would probably
be more innovative.
  Yes, it needs to add a graphics coprocessor, but considering a 
> 16 mhz SE/30 doing all its own graphics can outpreform a 20 mhz 386 running 
> Windows with a separate processor, it's obvious Apple does some amazing 
> technology tricks.
No, Motorola does some amazing technonoy tricks.
> Wade Williams
> cs220x2a@ducvax.auburn.edu
Matt Pierce