This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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>I use a NEC 3D. Great picture, and I got a good price on it. If you want a 16 >inch picture, grit your teeth and open your wallet! Yep, the 3D is great. I have one, and so should you… it's the only monitor I've ever found where the…
Yeah, but that's what they're doing with System 7.0 for the Mac, and that'll still be so buggy it'll have to be fumigated … at least, I assume it will be. Perhaps they'll score another everybody-hates-it-except-the-marketplace coup like with the Classic … I wish. :-|) Don.
I don't get you … doesn't that mean Commodore just started earlier with 2.0? I am given to understand that 7.0 has actually been stable for more than a year … but only on the higher-model (more expen$ive) Macs, and that the long delay is an attempt to get it…
Boy I'll say … whenever someone sees my Mac he says, "Is that a Mac?" Even if he owns a Mac himself, he asks that … I've done some weird stuff to it. And when I used the Amiga at work, I was utterly lost at first, then slowly figured…
As bug-free as possible … yuss, that seems to be what Apple is doing with The Amazing Puff of Vapor v7.0. Although I hear it's not all it's cracked up to be. Don.
"A dime's still a screwdriver"??? "Eschew obfuscatory aphorisms" … ::)) Don.
Thanks, –jp–seattle–. I'll check it out … Don.
Is Workbench 2.0 out? Or is it another Vaporware 7.0, like the one on the Mac? (Which is now supposed to come out on May 13th, at some Expo or other…) Don.
Re: manual transmission: I fully agree. Don.
All right! Who did that ad? And what, exactly, was it advertising…? Don.
Those are really good points … but I think you carry the analogy too far. I think that, if you become enamored with a system, FOR WHATEVER REASON, you will become more of a "power user" in it. In the two years I've had this Mac I've learned more about…
That's a much better way of putting it … I forgot that I once said something along those lines. The CLI is wonderful for most programmers, but it's what separates (more than the GUI, you'll have to admit) many potential users from computers. When you have a CLI, as I…
At least, the version I had stank. After a week of frustration, I turned in my report. My boss, already no fan of the Amiga, pulled a phrase from my report and actually put it on a circulating menu: "The Amiga's interface resembles that of the Macintosh, with all the…
I computerized our whole accounting system in the summer of '87. I will always remember with especial fondness the demonstration I gave of the new timesheets. The entire staff, secretarial and otherwise, gathered round and watched me open one of the new sheets. "Now…" I said, and was instantly interrupted…
When using the Amiga at work I was "kind of impressed" only until I discovered that the command-line could not be avoided by a power user. That effectively nuked the Amiga for me the same way it nuked MS-DOS and UNIX. Steve, some of us just CANNOT use a CLI.…
But Macs _do_ have multitasking. "Running in background," don't y'know. What they don't have is "pre-emptive" multitasking. "Pre-emptive" multitasking makes things much easier for programmers, but I have actually found (on the UNIX machines at work) that it actually has some disadvantages for me on the user side… but not…
#Mac/IBM viewing?
Message #6229
Hello … I'm not an Amiga user, I'm afraid, although I've used them at the place where I worked. I have obtained an Amiga "MSETTER" animation (whatever that means) from a BBS, and I am wondering if there is any way to view it, or just to extract the images…