Xref: utzoo comp.sys.ibm.pc:40198 comp.sys.mac:44546 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!cs.dal.ca!ug.cs.dal.ca!smith From: smith@ug.cs.dal.ca (Sean Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: IBM vs. Mac - Long (was Re: Xerox sues Apple!!!) Message-ID: <1989Dec18.174644.24333@ug.cs.dal.ca> Date: 18 Dec 89 17:46:44 GMT References: <6767@tank.uchicago.edu> <1989Dec17.112127.27333@me.toronto.edu> <14960@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <4574@ur-cc.UUCP> <18222@netnews.upenn.edu> Reply-To: smith@ug.cs.dal.ca.UUCP (Sean Smith) Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada Lines: 45 In article <18222@netnews.upenn.edu> meuchen@grad2.cis.upenn.edu (Paul Eric Menchen) writes: >Who said most used meant best? Buy the way, Macs can run UNIX too, >including X-Windows and everything else. Can your IBM do that? Yep. If I had a 386. Will all Macs run UNIX? > We were using Aldus Pagemaker 3.0, a program I have used on >the Mac for about a year and half. While some of these may reflect >deficiencies of that program, I think they also offer insight to the >IBM platform. Pagemaker on the PC is a dog. Desktop publishing of any sort shouldn't be done on a PC. It isn't a good comparison - try Excel, which runs with approximately the same interface on both the PC and Mac. >We couldn't network the machines easily like >Macs to one laser printer. Instead, we had to hook up an A/B/C/D box >and switch it whenever someone else had to print. This resulted in a >lot of "Are you done printing?" The printer wasn't smart enough >either to recognize what it was sent. A Mac laser printer can print >text when printing from MacWrite or printing program listings, or >PostScript when printing from PM or some other PostScript program. If Sure, they can be networked easily, but they are as slow as molasses running uphill in January when the system's loaded. I know - I work in an area where we have networks of both PC's and Macs. And the Macs are slower by a long shot. Want to bring up Excel? Double click in the icon and wait 1 minute (literally - when the system's loaded down). On the PC network? Type in EXCEL and wait about 20 seconds, if that. No matter if the system's near full or what. Which brings me to another point - GUI's. Personally, I hate 'em. Which already makes me loathe the Mac, but not so *if I could ditch the GUI for a command line environment*. That is one of my big gripes about the Mac - it's nearly impossible to get a command line environment like DOS for a *reasonable* price. Sean -- /--------------------------------------------------------------------------\ | Sean Smith - Damage Inc. "Let me tell you what you're trying | | Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada to say..." 01SSMITH@AC.DAL.CA too | | These ideas are mine...ALL MINE!!! *maniacal laughter* |