Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!pasteur!agate!ig!uwmcsd1!marque!gryphon!richard
From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Computer Chronicles strikes again!
Message-ID: <3466@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 20 Apr 88 07:54:55 GMT
References: <8567@cisunx.UUCP> <3364@gryphon.CTS.COM> <1483@csib.csi.UUCP>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
Lines: 41
Keywords: .not disgusting
Summary: well pardon me

In article <1483@csib.csi.UUCP> jwhitnel@csib.UUCP (Jerry Whitnell) writes:
I wrote:
>>In article <8567@cisunx.UUCP> ejkst@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu.UUCP (Eric J. Kennedy) writes:
>>>
>>>Oh, well, it could be worse.  If I'm not mistaken, they didn't mention
>>>MultiFinder either.
>>
>>Of course not. They tried to run hypercard. Oops, it crashed, oh yeah
>>it doesnt run under MultiFinder.
>
>Hypercard works fine with MultiFinder on any machine with 1 mb or more.
>Of course, with "only" 1 mb, you can't run anything else because HyperCard
>is a memory hog.

Gosh. That nasty old InfoWorld must have lied when they said: "it crashed".
Maybe it was an old version ?

>
>>They tried Interleaf. *Pop* Ooops
>>that doesnt run under MutliFinder either.
>
>Of course Interleaf has lots of other problems on the Mac.  Comes from
>not following the interface guidelines.  For example, they don't use the
>font manager and so loose a few characters from the fonts.  Useless things
>like umlats and such that nobody except Europeons would miss.

Useless huh ?  Thats almost as funny as having to pay ANOTHER $2500
to get the latest version after you've alredy paid $2500 for the
original version.

So thats what, $15K For a Mac ][, $5K more if you want unix, and $5K
to get a the latest version of some hard to use software.

Computer for the rest of us ? Us what ? Billonaires ?

Just what the world needs, a $25,000 text processor. I sit in awe.



-- 
   Five tacos, one taco burger. Do you know where the American Dream is ?
richard@gryphon.CTS.COM                          rutgers!marque!gryphon!richard