Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles; site uicsl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uicsl!keller From: keller@uicsl.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.apple Subject: Re: JEP vs MAC - (nf) Message-ID: <5800001@uicsl.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-Jun-84 15:54:00 EDT Article-I.D.: uicsl.5800001 Posted: Wed Jun 6 15:54:00 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 11-Jun-84 00:18:36 EDT References: <131@analog.UUCP> Lines: 21 Nf-ID: #R:analog:-13100:uicsl:5800001:000:1010 Nf-From: uicsl!keller Jun 6 14:54:00 1984 #R:analog:-13100:uicsl:5800001:000:1010 uicsl!keller Jun 6 14:54:00 1984 I spent about 3 hours working with a Mac and cannot see any justification for characterizing it as slow. The Mac I used belongs to a friend who is writing his thesis on it and so far he loves it. The only annoyance seems to be trying to get along with one disk drive. The Mac needs about 270k worth of system code space on one drive and forces you to do a lot of disk swapping when changing applications. A second drive cures the problem. With more memory and double sided drives the Mac won't have the same behavior. All screen operations are very fast and the inherent CPU power is far above IBM 8088 based systems. I use a XEROX Dandelion at work and can say that as a mouse/window based system the Mac is superb. If the $35k Dandelion had the same price performance ratio I would be delighted. I am amused by the widespread misunderstanding of the benefits of the mouse and window interface. A knowledgeable and fast typing UNIX user can be beat by a knowledgeable mouse/window/menu user any day. -Shaun