Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!midway!midway.uchicago.edu!francis From: francis@zaphod.uchicago.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: give me solid facts: why is the mac better than MeSsy DOS/WINDOWS Message-ID: Date: 21 Mar 91 19:38:11 GMT References: <1991Mar16.021936.21633@amd.com> <16918@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM> <1991Mar21.024213.9550@amd.com> <16936@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: Mathematics Department, University of Chicago Lines: 22 In-Reply-To: dave@PRC.Unisys.COM's message of 21 Mar 91 17:38:36 GMT In article <16936@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM> dave@PRC.Unisys.COM (David Lee Matuszek) writes: Perhaps I misused the word "configure". Yes, I'm used to just buying a new piece of equipment, say a CD-ROM reader, and just plugging it in, but I really wouldn't mind a half-hour configuration procedure that much. What I meant was, the last time I had to use floppies on an IBM, I had to get out of my program, maybe re-log in as root (I forget), put in the disk, run some program to mount it (because the IBM was just plain too stupid to realize I had stuck in a disk), then get back into my program again. I don't remember the details. Do Windows users still have to go through this sort of sh-, er, nonsense? Sounds like Unix to me. -- /============================================================================\ | Francis Stracke | My opinions are my own. I don't steal them.| | Department of Mathematics |=============================================| | University of Chicago | Until you stalk and overrun, | | francis@zaphod.uchicago.edu | you can't devour anyone. -- Hobbes | \============================================================================/