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From: chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Bogus IIci review in Washington Post
Message-ID: <37633@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 5 Jan 90 20:45:28 GMT
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davidl@leonardo.intel.com (David D. Levine) writes:


>	   "The new Macintosh IIci shows how little regard computer makers
>	pay to compatibility these days. Apple advertises that its new 
>	computer is compatible with "virtually all Macintosh software." I 
>	didn't find that true.  ....
>	    "I found numerous Mac programs that wouldn't run on the IIci.

It almost sounds like he infected himself with WDEF.

>	Even worse, the computer sometimes crashed with a 
>	program disk in the floppy drive. This is bad news, because Apple 
>	forgot to put an "Eject" button on the floppy drive. You're supposed to 
>	eject a disk through system software. But once the system crashes, 
>	there's no way to get the unwanted disk out.

Poor guy -- no paperclips handy? Or didn't he read the instructions? 

>	    "As a result, when you hit the reset button after a crash, the Mac 
>	sits there complaining about the alien disk in the floppy drive - but 
>	provides no way to eject it.

Funny. If the floppy is a boot disk, it should boot. If not, the system
should spit it out at him. Certainly does on mine.

>Also, is compatibility as bad as Reid claims?  Judging by the lack of
>traffic on this net on the subject, the IIci's compatibility seems to be as
>good or better than any other new-architecture Mac so far.

If he was infected with WDEF, he might well have seen some of the crashing
problems he complained about. That seems to be the major source of
'compatibility' problems. Of course, being infected with WDEF isn't exactly
Apple's fault in this, but...


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