Re: Apple and the Holy War

[Roy and/or Janet Miller <millers@inetnebr.com>]

Paul Schlyter wrote:
> 
> Roy and/or Janet Miller  <millers@inetnebr.com> wrote:
>  Paul admits that the program that he was citing was a VERY
> > special case.
> 
> I never "admitted" anything like that -- it's merely your
> interpretation of what I wrote.  

Ok, sorry for a misunderstanding.

And I find it amusing that so many
> people (yep, you're not alone!) thinks it's a "VERY special case"
> to use computers for computations.....  I mean, what else where
> they originally created for?

But using a computer TODAY, for what they were created for in the 1940s
IS a very special case Paul.
> 
> > The fact is that in using what most people use a micro computer for
> > (productivity that is),
> 
> You mean word processing and similar trivial stuff?  

Such software is referred to a "productivity software" Paul, at least
here, and that is how I was using the word - in contrast to graphical
web browsing and playing games.

> > an Apple //e is as good as a 1 ghz Wintel.
> >
> > Consider this posting which I am doing on my 100 mhz pentium. 

> I find it amusing that you call a 1 GHz PC "out of date".  

I didn't - I called my 100 mhz Pentium out of date. But hey, it's easy
to let your eyes drop a line or two like that.

> > Word processing??? When writing a paper for grad school, or a letter, or
> > a report for presbytery, my Kaypro 2X with it's letter quality printer
> > does a better looking job, though the printer is slower, than my laser
> > printers driven by my Wintel or my 040 Mac.
> 
> Did that better looking report help you get a better grade at school?
> If not, it was irrelevant.  BTW when grading reports, doesn't content
> count much more than appearance?
> 
Of course. But I remember in the mid 80s when I was in grad school how
one Prof. refused to take papers that were printed out on the thermal
printer that a lot of my classmates got with the PCjrs. And if I writing
a letter on my letter head, well other than a print shop, nothing is
better than a daisy wheel printer.

> > Or I could use WordPerfect on my //e, or my GS version on my GS and
> > my ImageWriter LQ or WP on my Kaypro 16 and my Epson 24 pin dmprinter
> > and have great looking stuff without all the overhead of a GUI.
> 
> Yes, but you would have a hard time exchanging documents with others,
> most of whom most likely wouldn't use the same diskette format as you.

But I seldom have to exchange files. And WordPerfect (which is what I
use in Windows) reads other WordPerfect files just fine, even from other
platforms.
 
> > Otherwise, I was VERY happy with my WordPerfect for DOS office suite,
> > and I do miss the solid, sane software that I used to use everyday.
> 
> So why did you quit using it?  You claimed it worked, and you were
> happy with it.  Don't you want to be happy?  Of course you do!  Then
> go back to that old software!!!
> 
But DOS software doesn't use the Greek or Hebrew alphabets on the screen
at the same time as the Latin alphabet. Which is why I moved to Windows.

Roy