Re: A Tale of Two Apples

[Matt Portune <mportune@telerama.com>]

Mitchell Spector <spec@vax2.concordia.ca> wrote:
> was not very productive and wasted lots of time having to figure out
> how to squeeze things onto 800K disks and deal with constant disk swaps.

Man, I miss those days.  Silpheed was a pain to play, and Pyware
MusicWriter was literally PAINFUL to use.  hehe

> it to do. Let me ask you, have you ever composed 15-30 pages documents,
> using different TrueType font styles and sizes in AppleWorks GS? Have
> you ever done a page layout project in GraphicWriter III? Have you
> ever composed a multi-track music sequence using a MIDI keyboard with
> synthLAB or created your own instrument bank? What about sat for hours
> drawing detailed graphics in Platinum Paint, DreamGrafix or DeluxePaint?

Aw man, Now I wanna go home and bust out my Incider/A+ collection,
especially the one when System 6 came out.  What an inspiring issue.  I
remember the excitement like it was yesterday.  *sigh*

> speed might be more of an issue. Incidentally, with my DMA SCSI card,
> semi-modern hardrive and accelerator,I can shift-boot into the System
> 6.0.1 Finder in roughly 4 seconds. :) 

Hey Mitch, weren't you and I originally tied at 3.5 seconds?  :)

In my experiences, the GS is still the fastest-booting machine on the
planet.  (non-OS-booting machines don't count (C64, etc)
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