Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!apple!veritas!amdcad!brahms!phil From: phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: give me solid facts: why is the mac better than MeSsy DOS/WINDOWS Message-ID: <1991Mar22.020449.18435@amd.com> Date: 22 Mar 91 02:04:49 GMT References: <1991Mar16.021936.21633@amd.com> <16918@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM> <1991Mar21.024213.9550@amd.com> <16936@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM> Sender: usenet@amd.com (NNTP Posting) Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Lines: 34 dave@PRC.Unisys.COM (David Lee Matuszek) writes: >Oops, sorry. I thought most applications still didn't use Windows. >Shows how much attention I pay to the DOS market, I guess. Maybe not most in terms of numbers of apps vs the whole market, but the kind of things I really care about like MS Word are available. >Why, what do you use? Not as many as you. Although I don't necessarily see a virtue to the number of different apps one uses, either large or small. (large to imply lots of power. small to imply the ones you do use are very powerful) I use MS Word for Windows, MS Excel, MS Powerpoint, MGX Designer. Would like to use Timing Designer. I could use Ventura or CorelDraw or Pagemaker, etc. >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? No, just go to file manager and chose Format from the menu. -- Help! I just got a Macintosh. Anyone got a magnifying glass?