Re: A+/InCider article: ACK!

[jimwong@owlnet.rice.edu (Jim Wong)]

In article <9FPauB7w165w@bluemoon.use.com> slhood@bluemoon.use.com (Stephen L. Hood) writes:
>
>Another award went to GS/OS 6.0 for "Best Missed Opportunity".  The 
>reviewer claims that GS/OS 6.0 (which the rest of the world calls System 
>6) "should have taken a couple more pages from the Mac's System 7.  The 
>latter, for instance, can quickly create an alias for any docuement or 
>program..."  This is an intolerable statement.  It infuriates me that Mr. 
>Keizer can be so foolish and shortsighted.  He completely overlooks the 
>HFS FST's merits, mentioning it in the middle of a sentence that resolves 
>by stating that Apple "missed the opportunity".
>
Intolerable?  Why? Simply because the author prefers System 7 to the
GS' system 6?  Please explain.

>
>The HFS FST, coupled with the soon-to-be-released MS-DOS FST, allows the 
>GS to access the most popular and common disk formats.  However, even the 
>glorious System 7 cannot directly read lowly ProDOS disks -- you first 
>have to go to Apple File Exchange and wait about ten times as long to copy 
>a file as you would to copy a Mac file to the IIGS.

Wrong -- an Apple-written init called "ProDOS File System" lets you read
ProDOS disks directly from the Mac desktop.  It's available free from
ftp.apple.com.

>
>I personally want nothing more of the Mac OS than aliasing.  The scrolling 
>thumbs on the Mac do not resize according to the size of the document, 
>creating a very non-intuitive interface.  Folding sharing on the IIGS 

According to "Tog on Interface", proportional scroll bars are more confusing
for the new user than those that don't change size.  I don't much care
either way.
>
>Mr. Kreizer's writings have been much more productive and objective in the
>past.  Indeed, "Briding the Gap" has been one of the very few tangible 
>products of the incorporation of Mac support into A+/InCider.  However, I 
>am now quite disappointed by what I feel can only be the result of the 
>influence of a new chief editor.
>
>I am upset by this unprofessionalism and intend to write a letter to the 
>editor.  Watch for it, folks.  If it even appears, I'll be surprised if I 
>recieve a reply.
>
"Unprofessionalism"?  It doesn't seem unprofessional to me.

-- 
Jim Wong (jimwong@owlnet.rice.edu)