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From: benoni@ssc-vax.UUCP (Charles L Ditzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: A Few Good Rumors...
Message-ID: <1686@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: 19 Feb 88 08:11:09 GMT
References: <1406@csib.csi.UUCP> <1575@uhccux.UUCP> <330@esquire.UUCP>
Organization: Boeing Aerospace Corp., Seattle WA
Lines: 27
Keywords: A/UX Unix FullWriter

In article <330@esquire.UUCP>, sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten) writes:
> That's exactly it.  Remember, your Mac II running A/UX can also run real live
> useful applications as well (not that Unix isn't useful, but...).  The Apollo,
> on the other hand, runs what in the way of software?  I don't know, but it
> sure ain't as good as Illustrator, PageMaker, etc., etc.  And please, no
> flames from the TeX/troff junkies...  :-)
Both Apollo and Sun run desktop publishing packages that make PageMaker and
Illustrator look positively primitive, ever heard of FrameMaker and Interleaf?
Ever see these on a 1600x1280 screen?  If you live at all in a technical
world - which clearly it doesn't sound like you do - Apollos and Suns run
*lots* of engineering, CAD/CAM, medical applications.  Have you ever seen
NeWS (ever seen a circular window?).  Get serious the Mac II has a *long*
way to go before ever being considered an "engineering workstation" let
alone a workstation.
> 
> To paraphrase Mr. Oster, "A Mac II makes a poor Apollo, and an Apollo makes a
> poor Mac II."
> By the way, the only "sophisticated user interface management system" 
>I've seen > running on an Apollo (or a Sun for that matter) looks 
>suspiciously like multiple color windows with lots of scrolling text in them.  >Whoopee!  :-)
You mean like Mac's Word.  You don't seem to know a whole lot about
workstations generally.  It might be worthwhile to check out "Ideas",
ComputerVisions CAD 4X, etc.
NeWS on the Sun is a networkable window system that *understands*
postscript.  You can preview postscript graphics, etc.  
*I'm sorry, I suddenly am beginning to understand...go back to your
Missile Attack game on your Mac* :)