Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac:44401 comp.sys.next:4392
Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!sdsu!ucsd!hub!6600pete
From: 6600pete@hub.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: What do I want to see in the Apple of the 90's?
Message-ID: <3333@hub.UUCP>
Date: 16 Dec 89 09:53:50 GMT
References: <22438@ut-emx.UUCP>
Sender: news@hub.UUCP
Lines: 26

From article <22438@ut-emx.UUCP>, by chari@ut-emx.UUCP (Christohpher M. Whatlyey):
> Well. From "real-world" experience, I can tell you that people who find 
> ...my roommate... cannot use a Mac and Word. Period!

Word's not a Mac program. It's a PC program ported to the Mac. I know, I know,
it is vastly superior to the PC version and is very different in some
fundamental ways, but what I'm most importantly saying here is that Word/Mac
is not a Mac program. People have complained about it for years. WriteNow,
which I imagine chances are the word processor your roommate uses on the NeXT,
is a Mac program. It borrows heavily from MacWrite. QED.

> Text scrolling is faster than IIcis I have used for sure.

Whoops. Try the NeXT being 4-bit mono and the IIci you might have used being
in 8-bit color. Whenever I'm doing heavy text on a color Mac, I turn all the
colors off. Performance skyrockets. That's what the Monitors cdev was designed
for.

> And disk access. Don't even try to argue that one.

You're kidding, right? The optical drive is hideously slow. The 100MB SCSI
Winchester is OK, but that's not standard, is it now?
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Pete Gontier   | InterNet: 6600pete@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu, BitNet: 6600pete@ucsbuxa
Editor, Macker | Online Macintosh Programming Journal; mail for subscription
Hire this kid  | Mac, DOS, C, Pascal, asm, excellent communication skills