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From: dlw@hpsmtc1.HP.COM (David Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: Re: A/UX window systems, Mac tool...( Hum Interface) (calibration)
Message-ID: <13650004@hpsmtc1.HP.COM>
Date: 15 Mar 88 18:00:42 GMT
References: <6895@drutx.ATT.COM>
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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pete da Silva writes:
>>...and it succeeds in making a 68020 feel like it's as slow as an 8088.
Hmmm, I'm using a Mac II now and it does not feel that way to me or any of 
the other engineers in my lab who own Mac II's.

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.
*WoW* a whole second to 1/2 a second?? Gee I better go sell my mac and buy an
amiga! :) Now if only their was some software for it! ;) uh oh this could 
start a religious war! It is hard for me to tell if it is even a full second
for my II to context switch between typing in this window in NCSA telnet and
say double clicking on a folder on the desktop. Sounds like another case of
nanosecond madness to me. 
>>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.
Yes but then we were not discussing the Amiga, which still seems no closer to
having any significant installed base, we are discussing the Macintosh.
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