Fwd: Re: CAN A MAC MULTI-TASK (The Whole Truth)

[bjblackbear@ibm.net (B.J. Major)]

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Subject:     Re: CAN A MAC MULTI-TASK (The Whole Truth)
From:        Matthew Vaughan <see-below@not-my-address.com>
Newsgroups:  comp.sys.mac.advocacy
             comp.sys.mac.misc
             comp.sys.mac.apps
Date:        Sat, 01 Nov 1997 12:52:57 -0800

In article <345f4912.4271502@news.pdq.net>, at*dcorn*at@pdq.net (dcorn) wrote:

> On Thu, 30 Oct 1997 09:36:14 GMT, grotskos@compulink.gr (Gabriel
> Rotskos) wrote:
> 
> >- Global registry and reliance on DLLs a serious shortcoming 
> >   (you cannot boot from a second system disk and run your
> >     applications without reinstalling them)
> 
> Run MS Office on the Mac from a Zip disk with only System and Finder
> on it.  You can't. 

But you can just drag over any extensions or libraries that Office needs,
without needing to re-install the software or edit anything. And MS Office
is an extreme case, since it (gee, surprise, considering who makes it...)
installs a ton of it's own garbage in the System Folder. The vast majority
of Mac applications don't - they'll run fine with the default set of
system extensions.

In fact, I sometimes run applications that happen to reside on a server,
without a second thought (other than network performance). And if I want
the app on my machine, I can almost always just copy the app itself
(without any of it's supporting files) and run it with no problem. I can
also move it to any directory at any time, and it will still run, and
documents will still cause it to launch. In fact, if I double click a
document for which I don't have the application, it will open without a
hitch if the needed app resides on a server that I happen to be connected
to. Also, I can reinstall or update the operating system without touching
any of the apps.



> >- No spring-loaded folders
> 
> Agreed - that's nice.  But the Mac lacks a second mousebutton with a
> nice context menu, and Ctrl-button doesn't come close.  

So buy a 2-button mouse. I personally use one with four buttons. But it's
true, I wish they'd offer them bundled with the system, at least as an
option.

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MATTHEW VAUGHAN

matthewv at mindspring dot com (damn spammers...)

http://matthewv.home.mindspring.com/

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