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From: elwell%tut.cis.ohio-state.edu@osu-eddie.UUCP (Clayton Elwell)
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Subject: Re: Macintosh II not Macintosh ][
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Date: Tue, 7-Jul-87 10:00:09 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul  7 10:00:09 1987
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In article <396@rocky.STANFORD.EDU> ali@rocky.UUCP (Ali Ozer) writes:
>[...]
>
>An operating system that forces me to sit and "twiddle my thumbs"
>(or anything equally silly, such as "look through the TV guide," 
>"go bother the cat," "go get another can of pepsi," etc) while 
>printing (or anything else you might want to do on your computer,
>such as "compiling," "transferring a file," "ray tracing," etc)
>just cannot be LIGHTYEARS ahead of Unix. At best it is five years
>behind. 
>

Oh, come on.  I use a Mac Plus, a Mac II, a Sun 3/50, a Pyramid 98x, an
Encore Multimax, and a DECSystem-2060, among others.  I spend about the same
proportion of my time waiting for each of these.  Even on a nice, big, fast,
multitasking machine, I end up going and getting a Coke after typing "make."

Probably the biggest use I make of multitasking is to maintain several
simultaneous connections to different machines, which I can do on a Mac 128K!
The important metric here is not how much you can make the computer do at once,
but how quickly you can accomplish what you set out to do.

Many people do find it easier to get things done on a Mac.  THIS IS AN
ADVANTAGE!  It means that for their purposes, the Mac OS is more advanced than
UNIX.

>
>I am no fan of Unix but I prefer Unix over the Macintosh's OS any day.
>Even if the Mac OS came wrapped in a 25 Mhz 68020 and the Unix on a 
>wimpy 750. The multitasking Unix would still more productive. 
>
>Ali Ozer, ali@rocky.stanford.edu

I'll believe it when I see a concrete example.


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