Re: Wolf. 3D IIGS - NEWS Update!

[mlamorte@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Mike LaMorte)]

DialTone95 (dialtone95@aol.com) wrote:
<lots of blither deleted>

Well, y'see, the reason all the PC owners are screaming and whining and
stomping their feet isn't because they CAN do something... it's because
the programmers CAN'T. YOu're trying to tell me that MicroSquish's
programmers needed 40 megs of hard drive space to make Windoze 95 that
"introduced" such "innovations" as a trash can and a desktop that you can
put icons wherever you please? Uh, you can do that with about 50k of disk
space on an Apple II and GEOS. Macs have been doing it since they came out
in '84, and the Mac OS is STILL about 20-30% the size of Windoze 95. Why?
Because programmers for PCs are lame. They figure, "We'll write this great
software, and if people want to run it bad enough, they'll optimize
they're systems around US. Why should we optimize the software for them?
If they want to run Win95 bad enough, and they want to run it efficiently,
then they'll go out and get another 8 megs of memory." 

The beauty of the Apple IIs are that people can write graceful
applications for the computer, and just about EVERYONE can run it. Sure,
some programs won't run on lower-end Apple IIs, but if you beef up your
system the standard apps will scream! I can take my entire OS, word
processor, spell-checker & dictionary, paint program, all the desk
accessories (calculator, note pad, puzzle, etc), a couple dozen fonts, and
run them all from RAM! And I only have 1 meg! So you start blabbering
about the quality of output... Well the joke's on you. I dump any of my
files to a PostScript compatable printer, and it'll look the same as any
Mac or Windoze system. PostScript output is PostScript output, regardless
of the machine that made it. And why do I run all my most often used apps
from RAM (and still have a few hundred k left over)????? BECAUSE I CAN.

 =p pbbbbbbbbbbbbbt!

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Mike LaMorte <mlamorte@freenet.columbus.oh.us>
CEO, President, Designer
Aurora Concepts Inc.
Design & Consulting