Re: Apple Computer, What Are You Up To?

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

coaxial@escape.ca (coaxial) wrote:

>I mean, eventually you'll want to
>take advantage of the new connectivity methods anyways so what's the big
>deal? Until then an adapter cable could suffice to hook up your legacy
>perhiperals. Problem solved.
>
>USB is better than the old Mac serial ports (and ADB).
>FireWire makes SCSI look like a bucket of old broken bolts.
>
>> Because everyone knows that you
>> can ALWAYS take the software and peripherals from your
>> current PC and install them on your next PC.  At least for two
>> or three revision cycles.
>
>And everyone knows how WONDERFUL MS-DOS 5.0 is as well as those
>wonderfully "speedy" PC parallel ports are. heh heh heh

1) Adapters cost money
2) USB devices are currently more expensive
3) Most Win PCs that offer USB still have traditional IDE/SCSI and
     parallel/serial ports.  Why did Apple completely and suddenly
     sever all ties with the past?  A better move would have been to
     include both traditional and new ports and not remove the
     traditional ones until a model or two later.
4) PC parallel ports may be slower than USB, but at least on a new
     Win PC, I can take my old parallel peripherals with me without
     buying an adapter (the new Win PC will also have USB ports,
     of course.
5) I happen to like DOS 5.  It was one of the most stable DOS
     versions.  I run most of my DOS software from a DOS 5 partition.
     It my opinion, DOS 6 started to get too hacked up and the one
     that comes with Win 95 and Win 98 is not "real" DOS.