Which platform?

[Greg]

Jim Naylor (jnaylor at southwind.net) wrote:
: In article <4r8laj$nc0 at nntp1.best.com>, jquinn at nntp.best.com (Greg) wrote:
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: > Maybe Canada has real price breaks on Macs, but I doubt it. The big
: > drawback with the mac is currently the operating system, which simply
: > doesn't hold a candle to Win95, letalone NT. Not only is the Mac OS
: > incapable of true pre-emptive multitasking, but it's handling of virtual
: > memory is terrible (ie. non-existant). If this wasn't bad enough, unless
: > extremely well set with tons of memory (eg. 32+), they can frequently
: > crash. There are extremely good reasons for buying a Mac, principally for
: > its interface, which a lot of people have grown up with (leastways here in
: > the US). Also, computer illiterates find them easier to deal with. No one
: > with any experience in this area would suggest that they are cost
: > effective in terms of computing power or hardware costs. That is simply
: > not the case.

: I have rarely seen such absolutely ignorant comments! Each and every
: disadvantage you impute to the Mac is true of Windoze95 instead, with the
: sole exception of pre-emptive multitasking, which most users wouldn't

MacOS does not handle virtual memory, without the use of a third party
product (RAM DOUBLER), and even with this product installed, 'out of
memory' errors can frequently present themselves when using system
intensive progs.

: recognize if it bit them, which it usually does on the MacOS copy,
: Windoze95. If your definition of a computer illiterate is someone who
: wants to get real work done without the machine getting in his face, then
: sign me up! But I was developing utilities and embedded system software
: for the original DOS version in 1982 in a proprietary  coprocessor-based
: LAN file server. When Mac II was born, I quickly decided life is too short
: to mess with MS. As for cost effectiveness, why do you suppose Lockheed
: Martin Astronautics just purchased three thousand Power Computing Mac
: clones? 

Since Apple are going belly-up, you can look forward to seeing more
headline-grabbing amazing breaks from them. This was a high-profile
contract which they desperately needed. These three thousand power Macs
they have just ordered should make excellent dumb terminals into their
mini computers.

: And you might as well forget plug and play on Windoze--

Eh? Plug and Play works just great on '95.

: you get more for your money in every way these days.