Re: Solutions in Modernizing GS (Re: Problems in "Modernizing" a //gs)

[bjblackbear@ibm.net (B.J. Major)]

<pubpc1@library.ucla.edu> wrote:

> bjblackbear@ibm.net (B.J. Major) wrote:
> >Scott G.:  I will forward these comments onto Lewin Edwards.  I'm sure
> >he'll have much to say about them as he himself has programmed *many*
> >Amiga items and still uses that platform himself on occasion.
> 
> I read his reply and noticed he did not answer most of the points
> in the post (see my reply to it).
> 
> Why is it that both you and he seem to think that the Mac is the
> best computer in the world and rag on everything else, PC, GS, or
> Amiga?  His previous posts were all attacks on the PC and the GS
> and his current reply is an attack on the Amiga.

Our personal preferences are simply that:  our personal preferences.  No
one asked you to adopt them as YOUR personal preferences.  However, to
say that either he or I "raggs" on the IIgs is simply ludicrous because
Lewin & I both own gs machines (and he owns a PC and Amigas as well....)

What has become crystal clear to both Lewin and myself, however, is the
fact that you guys *cannot* stick to the subject at hand--which
originally was the modernizing of the IIgs.  Sooner or later, it quickly
turns into an ACI bashing fest.

> 
> Sheesh, Mac users!

And sheesh to you as well.

> 
> -Scott G.
> (P.S. I happen to think that Umax [but not Apple] MacOS machines
> are better engineered than most PC clones, but I don't hold much
> hope for them.  They make superior machines to Apple and Apple
> won't stand for that for long.  While Rapsody is a much needed
> boost [heck, it is basically NeXT with a new face and the same
> microkernal, Mach; that's why I was saying NeXT does wonders for
> an Intel machine], the first step is to admit your shortcomings.
> MacOS, as it currently is [not Rhapsody] has problems.  Why can't
> Mac users admit that?  Don't believe me that I admire Umax clones?
> Ask Mitchell: I had a big debate with him on csa2 just a few
> weeks ago defending the Umax line against PC criticism.)

I read this group on a daily basis and saw no such "debate" covering
this subject.  Yes, the MacOS does have shortcomings and no Mac user on
this Apple II group would even say such a thing as "the MacOS is
perfect".  But with each System software release and update it's getting
better and better.  And, with the exception of the BeOS, it's still my
choice over the competition.

Personally, I'm still looking forward to Rhapsody because it will offer
specific features we don't currently have.

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