Fwd: Re: CAN A MAC MULTI-TASK (The Whole Truth)

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Subject:     Re: CAN A MAC MULTI-TASK (The Whole Truth)
From:        Joe Ragosta <joe.ragosta@dol.net>
Newsgroups:  comp.sys.mac.advocacy
             comp.sys.mac.misc
             comp.sys.mac.apps
Date:        Sat, 01 Nov 1997 10:41:17 -0500

In article <345f4912.4271502@news.pdq.net>, at*dcorn*at@pdq.net (dcorn) wrote:

> On Thu, 30 Oct 1997 09:36:14 GMT, grotskos@compulink.gr (Gabriel
> Rotskos) wrote:
> 
> >- Global registry and reliance on DLLs a serious shortcoming 
> >   (you cannot boot from a second system disk and run your
> >     applications without reinstalling them)
> 
> Run MS Office on the Mac from a Zip disk with only System and Finder
> on it.  You can't. 

Actually, you can for almost every application _except_ MS Office. A
stripped down System folder will fit on a floppy and will allow you to run
most apps.

Even with Office, you could easily add the necessary Office extensions and
still have it fit onto a Zip disk.

> 
> >- Hierarchical menus don't work right (cannot select items in
> >   the middle of the chain)
> 
> An example please?

I don't know what he means, but hierarchical menus on Windows suck compared
to the Mac. The Mac offers fully dynamic hierarchical menus. If you put an
alias for a folder (or the folder itself) into the Apple menu, everything
nested inside automatically becomes available from the Apple menu. The same
isn't true of Windows.

> 
> >- Power management
> 
> NT can use it, but a system integrator must support it.  In other
> words, Compaq, not Microsoft, would do a driver for it.  In reality,
> Intel or SystemSoft makes a driver and sells it to the manufacturers.

I'm not sure if this is true or not. I thought NT didn't offer it yet, but
it's irrelevant. When you buy a laptop computer to run WinNT, you're not
going to have power management. I'll let you worry about who to blame.

> 
> 
> >- Plug & play
> 
> Present, but not as good as the Mac...but there's lots more cool (and
> cheap) stuff to plug in on the PC.  :) 

PnP? NT? I think you're confused.

> 
> >- Game support
> 
> Is better in WinNT.  Shocking?  Mac sucks as a game platform.  My NT
> does GLQuake, GLHexenII, GLQuake2, and Ages of Empire.  Aside from the
> first, none of those are on the Mac.

I'd hesitate to call NT a great game platform. Still, you're probably right
here, although it's changing.
  
> 
> >- No spring-loaded folders
> 
> Agreed - that's nice.  But the Mac lacks a second mousebutton with a
> nice context menu, and Ctrl-button doesn't come close.  

Wrong again. I have a second mouse button with contextual menus on my Mac.
Plus third and fourth buttons with their own popup menus.

> >- Document windows within windows (a stupid MS idea that
> >   makes most people run their apps maximized...)
> 
> I find the Mac approach (multiple windows on one screen) more
> confusing.  MS's approach, technically the same, makes window
> management easier and faster.

Huh? Sounds like a pure preference thing, although the menus in the Windows
suck.

> 
> >- Color matching
> 
> See NT5.

Let's talk in 1999 to see how NT5's color matching shapes up.

-- 
Regards,

Joe Ragosta
joe.ragosta@dol.net
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http://www.dol.net/~Ragosta/complmac.htm

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