Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!sbcs!eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu!dtiberio From: dtiberio@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Flamage: Get a life. Message-ID: <1991Apr13.155008.28917@sbcs.sunysb.edu> Date: 13 Apr 91 15:50:08 GMT References: <2802B127.21121@orion.oac.uci.edu> <1991Apr12.045200.25169@sbcs.sunysb.edu> Sender: usenet@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Usenet poster) Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook Lines: 65 In article melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: > >In article <1991Apr12.045200.25169@sbcs.sunysb.edu> dtiberio@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio) writes: > > Is the next more similar to a UNIX workstation, an IBM, a Mac, or an > Amiga? Does it multitask/singletask? Does it use command line interfaces? > >You can use a Unix CLI or a Mac like GUI. Okay, so I assume you know a little or a lot about the Next because you answered my question(s). Does it multitask or single task? Is it more like a Mac, an IBM, or an Amiga and/or HP UNIX workstation? I want to know! I hear that System 7 on the Mac is supposed to multitask....I doubt it though. > > If it is anything like how the Mac works, I wouldn't be surprised if it > is painfully slow. For example, to show how slow a Mac can be, lod up > your favorite Mac program. Then say, "Oh, I forgot to format my disk." > Then exit the Mac program, format the disk, re-enter the application, etc. > >I thought that you whenever you inserted a disk on the Mac that wasn't >formatted, the Mac would prompt you to format the disk. Let me explain. I have one internal and one external drive. When I was using just one drive (I borrowed my roomate's drive recently), I would want to format a disk. I insert it in the drive. After about 5 seconds, it decides it is a bad disk, and asks me to insert my system disk. It then opens a prompt to format the disk...but my SYSTEM disk is in the drive! ALL attempts at ejecting, reinserting the bad disk, and even formatting the system disk have been utter failures. And it takes a long time. It is impossibly painful to use a mac without a huge hard drive. Also, when using one floppy, try inserting a new disk and opening a window for that disk. Then eject it and insert another new disk. Then, without ejecting any disks, try to move the first window. A prompt comes up asking you to insert a disk. WHY? The Mac can't even move a window without a disk swap? I only have a 40 meg hard drive, and only 10 megs is go8ing for the Mac, which I already think is too much. I feel bad that I have to share my hard drive like this, but alas... > >Are you using the Mac on an Appletalk network? That is the reason it No, I am not using it on a network. I do however have two of them right here in my dorm room (along with two Amigas). >takes so long to load a program. Apple ships Appletalk with their >machines for free so people use it. IBM on the other hand doesn't >ship anything so you buy must buy something, and that something is >Token Ring. Ask your school to put Ethernet cards in the Mac and you >will see a big improvement. > >-Mike And all this talk about memory protection....just use a RAD drive (I know you all have it). Or even better, run WB 2.0. It GURUS less and kills tasks instead. Or get SetTask, which lets you kill or freeze tasks! -- David Tiberio SUNY Stony Brook 2-3481 AMIGA DDD-MEN Tomas Arce Any students from SUNY Oswego? Please let me know! :) Un ragazzo di Casalbordino, Italia.