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From: cadsi@ccad.uiowa.edu (CADSI)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: give me solid facts: why is the mac better than MeSsy DOS/WINDOWS
Message-ID: <1991Mar27.032812.23838@ccad.uiowa.edu>
Date: 27 Mar 91 03:28:12 GMT
References: <39867@netnews.upenn.edu>
Organization: CAD-Research, U. of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
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From article <39867@netnews.upenn.edu>, by claytor@upenn5.hep.upenn.edu (Nelson Claytor):
> In article <1991Mar26.205631.16141@ccad.uiowa.edu> cadsi@ccad.uiowa.edu 
> (CADSI) writes:
>> Anybody ever run a BATCH file on a MAC.
> 
> Yes, I use MPW to do script-oriented things. It works very nicely, thank 
> you.

Get outa here, where'd you get this?  I need it NOW!!!!

>> Better yet, anybody ever
>> use that input queue to his advantage in getting ahead of the machine?
> 
> The type-ahead is 20 characters or so. What is it on a DOS machine? 
> (Curious, not confrontational.)

Oooh (pain)... Got me beat, 16 pathetic characters.  Macros are used to
expand this.
> 
>> Therefore, in answer to
>> the article subject, the MAC is NOT better than DOS machines, just
>> more demanding of user input.
> 
> So an IBM mainframe is the ultimate machine, since it runs batch jobs 
> best? ;->

Naw, be serious, a Cray is, BUT actually, I like 3090's.
They scream on certain applications.  Great File concentrator programs.

more dribble forthcoming:

Ok, last but not least, When I unbox tha MAC, and I have an ASCII file
to print (I haven't looked at software packages yet mind you), how do
I send this file to the printer?  If I'm not mistaken, And I admit,
I probably am (i'm probin' sort of), you have to load everything into
an application to do anything.  In DOS, its just copy <file> prn.
Matter of fact, I just wanna spit some stuff out the Serial port.
Such as a command to turn off auto answer at boot-up:
	copy <stuff>  >aux

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