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Subject: Re: IBM vs. Mac - Long (was Re: Xerox sues Apple!!!)
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Date: 25 Dec 89 19:40:35 GMT
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From article <1989Dec22.183926.27643@ntvax.uucp>, by jbeard@ntvax.uucp (Jeff Beardsley):
> I also work in a lab with IBMs and MACs.  Both are running on the same
> network, and use the same drives and printers.  Both run similar software,
> both have similar interfaces, and the MACs cost twice as much.  

Are you going to call Windows a useful piece of software? Come on, the thing
is such a horrible kludge of a Mac clone it makes me mad just to watch the
mouse pointer galumph across the screen.

> The Mac side of the network is USUALLY broken, with print queues stacking up,
> and the printers silent, or there are problems launching applications from the
> servers.

Hmmm. Sounds like a support problem to me. Either that or somebody who thinks
the Mac is simpler than it is "reconfigures" your network for you without
checking upstairs first. I've administrated a Mac network with over 200
machines on it, and never had problem one with the net itself. (Of course,
setting file permissions is always a pain, but then again it is on all
network systems...)

> One day I had this problem (47 jobs in the queue on the Image Writer, and
> .... silence).  I called upstairs about the problem and down came a test print
> which worked perfectly . . . I call back to find out what they did, and I am
> told that the test print came from the IBM side of the net!

Which tells me that your support people are still using antique architecture
and refuse to change, which explains the difficulties you have with your Mac
net.

Some problems with computers, especially those in an institutional setting,
stem from something other than the computers themselves.
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