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From: maddie@crash.cts.com (Tom Schenck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: If the GS meant business...
Message-ID: <3228@crash.cts.com>
Date: 21 Jul 88 23:08:21 GMT
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Reply-To: maddie@crash.CTS.COM (Tom Schenck)
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In article <834@lakesys.UUCP> marc@lakesys.UUCP (Marc Rassbach) writes:
>Tom,
>
>    What do you mean when you say "all code goes through an interperter?"  
>Do you mean the 'standard user interface' ie the 'toolbox' or the microcode on
>the microprocessor?  

  I mean that the 6800 family is not a microprocessor, but, in fact, a small
  equivilent of a computer. It checks ever instruction that comes in against
  a set list, and then against a user list. If a problem is encountered, it
  jumps to an error handling section, and generates a few interrupts.

>
>    If you mean the 'toolbox', I hate to tell you this, but the newer IBM's

  I don't mean the Toolbox, but the toolbox is cause for a lot of overhead.
  A toolbox, however, is a great way to provide compatability between models.

>
>    Don't get me wrong, an IBM is great for running a bbs, storing lotsa data

  An IBM is great for doing this, yes. But if it starts using the interpreting
  OS, I'm going back to my Apple ][, and going to build a 25Mhz accelearator!

>for processing in a Dbase, etc.    But no IBMer can get the same level of
>desk-top publishing for the same $$$ as a Mac owner.  And I have yet to see
>IBM programs (the majority) as user freindly as a Mac.    (my personal
>preferance:   User hostile software that one has to subdue.   Makes one enjoy
>a good program  :-) 

  I definatly agree with you there, but I also am quite good at subduing user-
  hostile programs. I really haven't had any problems with any programs, even
  if it is hard to use, I just complain, not give up. I also enjoy using the
  Mac, but it hurts me as a programmer to see such a fast machine slowed
  down so much so a phenominal amount of overhead.

>
>Marc Rassbach

Tom Schenck, Member 52nd Development Team

>The ideas expressed are my own, and if you don't like them, you are in the
>majority.

The idea expressed are those of the company I am in, which is owned by me, so
it doesn't really matter.
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