Re: Wozniak vs Jobs

[Jeff Lemke <lemke@terra.cira.colostate.edu>]

Regnirps wrote:
> 
> Jeff Lemke <lemke@terra.cira.colostate.edu> wrote:
> 
> >Sorry if I stepped on any toes about the Lisa.  I was repeating
> >something I had either read in BYTE Magazine in the 1995 issue of the
> >20th anniversary of personal computing, or something I had heard in the
> >PBS miniseries "Revenge of the Nerds".  I have no personal experience
> >with using Lisas.  Perhaps I shouldn't reference a non-Apple source of
> >information in an Apple newsgroup.
> 
> Of course you are right that the Mac/LaserWriter/PostScript super combination
> was a Jobs brainchild and nobody has ever really caught up.
> 
> I would argue that Macs are still preemminent in DTP despite attempts by PC
> software vendors. The Wintell systems are just too undetemninistic. You can pop
> a floppy when it is trying to use it and I notice that PC users on Win95 still
> double check to make sure things really happen like file copying or moving
> around in directories.
> 
> 
> Charlie Springer


Never mind about my questions about popping a floppy or things being
undeterministic.  But I've never found that to be terribly significant. 
I hardly ever use 3-1/2" floppies.  But even when I do, or use a Zip
disk or an optical disk or a CD, if I want to access it in Explorer, I
just click on whatever drive that device is mapped to, which means
clicking on the "A" or "B" drives for the floppies (I actually do still
have a 5-1/4 in my machine, "F" drive for the CD (C,D, & E drives are
hard drives), "G" drive for the optical, or some other computer's shared
device on the network, whether it's a ZIP drive, or the LaserGraphics
film writer or whatever.  If you remove a disk from the device your
accessing, it is true that Explorer will not update its display - it
will continue to show the contents of the disk (of whatever type) you
just took out.  It won't refresh the screen until you either
double-click that drive and close it or execute the refresh command. 
Actually, it's easiest to close that drive first before removing that
disk if you're not going to put another disk in that drive.  Quite often
I'm looking through several disks and I hit the 'refresh' command when I
change the disk.  It's not a hassle, really, but it would be nice if the
OS would know when a disk was removed and close the list of contents for
that disk automatically.  But wouldn't that involve changing some of the
sensors or electronics of all those different types removable storage
devices from all those different manufacturers so that a disk drive of
whatever type would communicate to Windows 95 that a disk had just been
removed?

Jeff Lemke