Re: OS For IIGS

[spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford) writes...

>pubpc1@library.ucla.edu wrote:
>
>: > I'm entitled to my opinion (last time I checked anyhow) and I gave it. I
>: > use both and I like Mac OS better. I'm snipping the rest of your never
>: > ending followup because I have nothing more to say about it.
>
>: I respect your opinion, but you were claiming that people who
>: like Win 95 have no credibility.  The fact that I like both OS
>: led me to respond.
>
>Kindly go back and reread my article. I said that IN MY BOOK (i.e. in my
>opinion) anyone who likes Windows' UI has no credibility when it comes to
>what makes a good OS. That's my opinion and you can like it or lump it.

    Ironically, in my book, anyone who likes the Macintosh OS (and
its UI) has no credibility when it comes to what makes a good OS.
Its shortcomings are so blatently obvious and in-your-face, I don't
understand how people can still stand up for it. Blind loyality and
faith in Apple maybe? Still looking at the situtation as it were 3
years ago or more perhaps?

    OTOH, I don't really feel comfortable saying that since there are
many people I've known on comp.sys.apple2 for years--who make logical
arguments, intelligent obversations and overall possess a strong
credibility--yet still very fond of the Macintosh OS. I can fully
understand the dislikes about the PC, since I share a lot of them
myself, but the Mac makes a poor alternative. For the longest time
the Apple IIgs was my alternative to _both_ platforms (and it had
solid strengths some 5 years ago) but its not realistic now with
the hardware being terribly obsolite and a complete lack of software
support today.

>: You can have your opinion, just don't complain about how you
>: can't get your sound card configured and all that if you won't
>: even take the time to learn what config.sys, autoexec.bat, ini
>: files, and .dll's are all about.  Learn it once from reading
>: the manuals and you won't have trouble with it ever again.
>: Anyone who has ever wrote an Applesoft program has enough
>: intelligence to write MS configuration files.
>
>I have no reason under the sun to learn that crap. There are people whose
>job it is to maintain the only non Apple box I ever touch.

    Maybe once Apple collapses (which is guaranteed to happen soon,
there is no doubt now) you may eventually be forced to, unless the
Macintosh is resurrected like Gateway is attempting to do with the
Amiga. Or another alternative surfaces, and that is something which
I would look forward to.

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca