Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac:13945 comp.windows.misc:288 Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ichthyosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu!elwell From: elwell@ichthyosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Clayton M. Elwell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.windows.misc Subject: Re: Mac/Sun/..., windows, mice, ... - YAWN Message-ID: <8310@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 15 Mar 88 02:30:09 GMT References: <1744@ssc-vax.UUCP> <1064@its63b.ed.ac.uk> <117@bodo.UUCP> <4065@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Computer and Information Science Lines: 30 Keywords: Mac, Sun, mice, windows, multitasking, ..., ... barnett@steinmetz.ge.com (Bruce G. Barnett) writes: The MacOS is very ambitious, and very impressive. Coming from a no-mouse PC. the MacOS is light-years ahead. But how will it be perceived by the Unix professionals and the power users? The people with Suns, Apollos, HP's, Vaxes, Symbolics, TI, etc. at work. Well, *I* have Suns and HP's and Symbolicses & TI's either on my desk or within quick walking distance (I'm posting this from a Sun 3/50). They are nice machines. What I would like on my desk at work is a Mac II running A/UX. It would be nice to have the same at home. I know, I seem to be becoming almost as much an A/UX bigot as Phil :-), but there are reasons for that. I've actually used A/UX. And NeWS. And X. And HP/UX. And Symbolicses. And so on. And I'd still rather have a nice, fast Mac II running A/UX. I think I qualify as a power user... I've been known to choke whole networks of Suns at a time (rexd can be fun). And I have *yet* to find a window system that is as nice as the Mac toolbox. NeWS could come close if they ever build a real user interface system on top of it, but the Mac II is here now, ready to go. Don't pass judgement before you've used it. -=- Clayton M. Elwell The Ohio State University, Department of Computer & Information Science 2036 Neil Avenue Mall, Columbus OH 43210 / (614) 292-6546