Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!math.fu-berlin.de!opal!unido!gmdzi!strobl From: strobl@gmdzi.gmd.de (Wolfgang Strobl) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: give me solid facts: why is the mac better than MeSsy DOS/WINDOWS Message-ID: <4160@gmdzi.gmd.de> Date: 28 Feb 91 00:17:04 GMT References: <91.056.16:01:18@ira.uka.de> <12608@helios.TAMU.EDU> <1991Feb26.094426.15315@silvlis.com> Distribution: comp Organization: GMD, Sankt Augustin, F. R. Germany Lines: 72 jimb@silvlis.com (Jim Budler) writes: >In article <12608@helios.TAMU.EDU> n138ct@tamuts.tamu.edu (Brent Burton) writes: >>In article <91.056.16:01:18@ira.uka.de> s_czempin@irav1.ira.uka.de writes: >>>So I have decided to be really thorough: I will start the COMPLETE LIST >>>OF REASONS WHY THE MAC IS BETTER THAN PC COMPATIBLES. >> >>Nicolai, >> >>Here are some reasons why macs are better than older technology: :) >> >>... >... As a Windows programmer and occasional reader of this newsgroup I would like to add my 0.01 DM (== 0.02 cent) to this discussion. >> >>* Fonts, clipboard, and other mac nice-itys >> >> The OPERATING SYSTEM (macs) supports the Fonts, clipboard, DAs, Networking, >> and every other aspect that makes a mac a mac. With Windows, there is no >> integration of these aspects. Not every program follows the same standard, >> if indeed there is a standard. >Finally, you hit the real advantages of the Mac. Too bad everyone hit the 'n' >key before this. > >[deleted discussion on fonts and clipboard, I agree DOS doesn't] But Windows does. It integrates fonts, clipboard, DAs (by making this kludge unnecessary), networking, and a few other things. Not every program follows the same standard, but most follow the standard given by the Windows Applications Style Guide. And it integrates multitasking, i.e. running many applications concurrently, instead of adding this feature afterwards. The Macintosh GUI was designed as a single tasking environment, while Windows was a multitasking, multi application environment from the very beginning. >> ... >>* International language support >> The Macintosh operating systems and applications all support resources >> and therefore, by simply modifying resources you can have an instant >> German application from the native English application for example. No >> recompilation is necessary. This important to users and developers >> both -- users are happy they don't have to read _everything_ in English, >> and developers don't have to recompile several versions -- just copy >> the specific resources to the application. >Apple did something extraordinarily right with this one. But it can >be done by Windows, too. Mac just got there first. I must qualify my >statement that it can be done by Windows. I mean its a feature that it >is technically possible to implement with Windows. This as opposed to >DOS where this is not possible. As far as I know only the Mac has already >implemented this feature. All Windows applications are constructed by creating resources using various editors (dialog box editors, icon editors, font editors, ....) and writing and compiling code using these resources, and finally combining the output of the resource compiler and the linker into one executable. Translating an application is simply done by creating yet another set of resource files and combining it with the - already linked and unmodified - program. No recoding, recompilation or relinking is necessary. So I wouldn't call this "technically possible to implement" with Windows. It's already implemented and widely used. Wolfgang Strobl #include