Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!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: <4291@gmdzi.gmd.de> Date: 14 Mar 91 22:42:50 GMT References: <4119@ryn.mro4.dec.com> Organization: GMD, St. Augustin, F.R. Germany Lines: 56 long@mcntsh.enet.dec.com (Rich Long) writes: > I think the Mac is better for one simple reason: less hassle (substitute > more, ah, descriptive word, if you like). > For the most part, stuff on the Macintosh JUST WORKS. I don't have to worry > about expanded/extended/unimaginable/unreachable memory. I plug in memory, > and IT WORKS. Not different from a PC with Windows. And you don't have to decide how to partitionate your memory if you want to use more than one application at the same time, on the PC. > I don't have to worry about path statements, and device > drivers, etc., etc. I install an application and IT WORKS. Tossing an INIT in > the System Folder is about as much configuration as I ever need to do. Case > in point: I recently set up and used a freeware AFP file server without > reading the documentation. Try something similar on a PC! No problem. Just drag it into the \windows directory and start to use it. (I prefer to have it a little more organized, so I have different directories for different parts of the system, which indeed makes it necessary to change the path statement. But you can do without, if you are afraid of it.) > The Macintosh is not without its flaws, but the fact is that it's carrying a > lot less baggage than Windows. It's PAINFULLY obvious that Windows 3 is a GUI > layered on top of a command line interface. It may be obvious to you, but it isn't obvious to me. So please explain, where you got this impression. (It's wrong, by the way.) > I dislike the File Manager and > Program Manager, because they are not graphically integrated (i.e. when you > get into them, it is obvious there is a command line underneath). Repeating this wrong statement doesn't make it true. > For > example, Copy... in the File Manager brings up a dialog where I get to type a > drive letter! Oooh. Aaaaah. Windows, IMO, is not a true graphic interface, > but another DOS shell. Ahem. Ever tried to drag a file to another directory or another drive? Use your mouse to point to the file you want to copy, push the mouse button and hold it down. The pointer will change to a little document icon. Now move this document to the place where you want the file to go - this may be everything you see in the File Managers window which is a valid destination for a file. Drop the document by releasing the mouse button. Now you have successfully copied a file. Having to tell a Mac user how to use a mouse. Funny... Wolfgang Strobl #include