Re: Amelio's ouster

[GUDATH@EZINFO.VMSMAIL.ETHZ.CH (Henrik 'Ratte' Gudat)]

In <16JUL199718353990@vax2.concordia.ca> spec@vax2.concordia.ca writes:


>     That is a rather murky defination of "wavetable synthesis". Simply
> having a DAC does not make a music synthesizer, and if you want to see
> examples of how the term is loosely used, you can find references of
> the Macintosh Plus and Macintosh II as having wavetable synthesizers
> built-in (all they have is a crummy 4 voice DAC).

Mitchell, I think you are really missing a few facts here. PowerMacs do not
have a physical limit of sound channels.

>     Have you ever heard a Roland Sound Canvas, Yamaha XG, AWE-32,
> Gravis or several other wavetable boards with chorus and reverb
> effects?

Yes, I do. Seriously, I prefer a real synthesizer like a Korg M3R over a
crippled bonsai synthesizer PCI card any day.
 
>     Being locked into one OS is a fortunate thing? Since when is lack of
> choice and freedom a good thing? (having an OS that doesn't even support
> true multitasking and forces you to do _everything_ with mouse, including
> something as simple as 'empty trash' with no keyboard shortcuts available,
> is not something I'd like to be stuck with 100% of the time).

I'm glad you mentioned preemptive multitasking. You're right, this is so
important I'm only pretending I'm happy with macOS. I would also like to see a
NT machine booting *and* crashing at the same time.

Hehe. I'm not here to defend the MacOS in general but point out some really old
argument that aren't true anymore or never have been. 
if you're unhappy with the MacOS, stick with your PC but at least accept the 
fact that some people (actually 46 millions) find the other way more appealing.

>     Game software is one case where a windows environment is completely out
> of place, and I don't recall having to type in obscure commands while in the

Nonsense. Please give me one reason why one should leave the windows
environment.

>     How, if the port openings do not match on different cases? Besides
> which, I don't believe Apple sells motherboards and chips you can buy
> ans install yourself (you have to bring in your system to an authorized
> dealer and have them do the swap at a hefty cost, assuming there is a

Mitchell, please get the facts straight. If you're really clueless as to what
is concerning the Macintosh, please don't post. 

> >Same with interrupts and what else you have mentioned. It's not fear but the
> >pure lack of necessity for having to deal with your computer on such a level.
> >It's great when you can talk with your friends about the latest findings in
> >IRQ priorities, but I better get my work done. From the users point, it's
> >none of my business.
> 
>     Once again, no choices, not being able to configure and tweak the
> machine to your likings (the machine being in control rather than you).

This is ridiculous at best. I leave the interpretation up to the reader.

henrik