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Date: Wed, 6-Jun-84 15:54:00 EDT
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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