Re: Wozniak vs Jobs

[mspaeth@mit.edu (Mark C Spaeth)]

In article <Pine.BSI.3.91.980427073515.11340A-100000@ns2.net-gate.com>,
Forrest  <squitaur@net-gate.com> wrote:
>  Which, I feel obliged to say, is the most stupid intentional design 
>flaw ever foisted on the computing public.  Since power failures can 
>happen at any time, and since total system lockups can happen
>at any time, the only rational way to design a
>computer system is to keep things as stable as possible as much of the
>time as possible; instead Apple seems to have gone out of its way to do 
>the exact opposite.  And the idea seems to have spread all over the place.

I'd hardly call asking a user to SHUT DOWN the system rather than just
flipping the power switch a 'design flaw'...

Shut down is just a general requirement for any system that caches disk
access to ensure that everything gets written to disk... and disk caching
increases overall system performance.

*EVERY* major OS requires a shutdown now... Win95, WinNT, all flavors
of unix, Mac, GSOS, etc...

Perhaps you should learn something about the blather you spew before
spewing it.


(and by the way, to get to the root of this thread, if you hold down
the mouse button when you turn on a mac, it'll eject the floppy for you,
no need for a paperclip... well, it worked on mac +'s and SE's, so
I assume it still works now...)

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