Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!ucbvax!UTCVM.BITNET!MQUINN From: MQUINN@UTCVM.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: a2r&d v apple Message-ID: <9104282143.AA09598@apple.com> Date: 28 Apr 91 21:34:32 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 31 On Fri, 26 Apr 91 17:55:52 GMT Jerry Shekhel said: > >What?! The GUI applications that are appearing right now, like PageMaker 4.0, >are virtually identical on the Mac and Windows platforms. What is it about >Windows that's so pathetic? This is no flame; I'd really like to know what >you find so bad about Windows. I know this wasn't directed to me, but I thought I'd throw my 2 cents worth in. (ever wonder why there was never a CENT special character on the A2? :) I, recently, had the dis-honerable 'pleasure' of installing Windows 386 on a model 70 PS/2. It was, by far, the most difficult program to set up that I've ever come accross. Not only was it difficult to setup, but OTHER applications have to be setup just to run under it. The screen updates are pretty slow (almost as slow as the GSs). There are several different 'MODES' it must be set to to run certain applications. The manual is impossibl e. I looked all over the manual on trying to find out how to get it to 'enhanced' mode. It crashes often (with my experience with it anyway). The mac, in my honest opinion, has the best GUI around, no matter how much I hate admitting that, it's my experience that that's the case. BUT that doesn't mean I like the mac the best, I can proudly say :) >+-------------------+----------------------+---------------------------------+ >| ...! [ princeton mit-eddie bu sunne ] !polygen!jerry | >| jerry@polygen.com | >+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------------------- BITNET-- mquinn@utcvm <------------send files here pro-line-- mquinn@pro-gsplus.cts.com