Re: OS For IIGS

[dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff)]

Matt Portune (mportune@telerama.REMOVETHIS.com) wrote:

: True, windows is no where as easy to set up as MacOS, but for the people who 
: actually know how to get windows running properly, it SCREAMS past MacOS in 
: features, speed, and reliability.  If it didn't, I wouldn't be using it.  This 
: is not a difficult concept to grasp.

Oh, yeah?  Then Apple must really have problems.

At work, I have three computers on my desk...
1)  A Psion 3a running EPOC-16 at 16 MHz.  Nice machine, but very limited
    because it is a palmtop.  Okay, so that isn't fair...I'll stick it
    back in my pocket...

At work, I now have two computers on my desk...
1)  An 80486 based machine running Win'95 at 25 MHz.  That's the one the
    University gave me.  It has 16Mb of memory, and a woefully inadequate 
    hard drive, something like 600Mb.

2)  A ROM-01 IIgs, stock, with a 20Mb Focus drive and 1.25Mb total RAM. 
    That one is running GS/OS 6.0.1 and it *smokes* the Win95 machine.

I don't even have a word processor (except Notepad) on the PC anymore.  I had
MS-Office on it for a while, but it took up too much space, slowed the
machine to a crawl when running, and had a nasty habit of crashing.  So I
got rid of it (I had been trying to do a database with MS Access) and
installed Paradox instead...a much faster, much less buggy program...and I
installed the earlier version because it has to talk to Win3.1 machines.

On the GS, I have AppleWorks (for the database), Teach, Apple Writer //e,
and GraphicWriter III.  If I want to print something on the laser printer,
I tell the machine to print, and it prints via AppleTalk.  I can talk to
the same printer with the Win95 box, but whenever I print, someone else's
machine (the one the printer's parallel port is actually connected to, a
Win3.1 Pentium machine) crashes. 

Now, my workplace PC is fairly robust.  It runs for weeks between reboots,
but then the only things I run on it are Telnet, FTP, Paradox, Notepad,
and Netscape 3.x.  And part of the reason for this is that my GS will do a
lot of things a lot faster and a lot easier than the PC will.  And if my 2
MHz GS can outperform my 25 MHz PC...and if, as is claimed above, the
Win95 box can outperform a MacOS machine, I hate to think what the Mac and
the GS would look like side by side...

--Dave Althoff, ][.
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