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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: A/UX window systems, Mac tool...( Hum Interface) (calibration)
Message-ID: <1549@sugar.UUCP>
Date: 11 Mar 88 14:39:16 GMT
References: <884@daisy.UUCP> <6895@drutx.ATT.COM>
Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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Summary: I have used a Mac with Multifinder...

...and it succeeds in making a 68020 feel like it's as slow as an 8088.

In article <6895@drutx.ATT.COM>, clive@drutx.ATT.COM (Clive Steward) writes:
> But think that some of the work$tation users who are in this discussion 
> are missing very important information.  You can see everything at the same 
> time.  Please try a Mac with Multifinder.

I've tried it. Quickly, stop what you are doing and resize some window that's
not part of the terminal program you're in.

You click that window's sizing gadget, and wait about a second while
Multifinder tells the program that you've activated its window, and it
brings it to the front and repaints all the scroll bars and the title bar
and everything. Even if that window was the active one, there can be up
to half a second wait while the program gets around to realising that you
clicked in its sizing gadget. If you move the mouse outsize that box while
you're waiting it blows you off.

A very frustrating episode all round, particularly after working with my
lowly Amiga with its instantaneous real-time response to user events.

And it's even cheaper than the Mac. $1200 gets you a VERY full-featured color
system. I won't pretend that the display is Sun or even Mac-II quality, but
it's definitely in the Mac-plus range.
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-- Peter da Silva  `-_-'  ...!hoptoad!academ!uhnix1!sugar!peter
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