Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!sri-spam!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!ucsfcgl!cgl.ucsf.edu!mday From: mday@cgl.ucsf.edu.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: support for older machines & Re: MultiFinder RAMDisks Message-ID: <10528@cgl.ucsf.EDU> Date: Wed, 2-Dec-87 17:08:08 EST Article-I.D.: cgl.10528 Posted: Wed Dec 2 17:08:08 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 6-Dec-87 17:04:08 EST References: <1927@unc.cs.unc.edu> <6664@apple.UUCP> Sender: daemon@cgl.ucsf.edu Reply-To: mday@socrates.ucsf.edu.UUCP (Mark Day) Organization: UCSF Computer Graphics Lab Lines: 45 In article <5488@oberon.USC.EDU> kurtzman@pollux.usc.edu (Stephen Kurtzman) writes: >Let me put it a slightly different way. I just shelled out money for an SE >with an imagewriter and a modem. According to the literature and the Apple >authorized dealers, this configuration is the middle-of-the-line. When I >bought my system it could run all of the Apple standard software. Less >than 90 days later it cannot. Since Apple has released Multifinder and >Hypercard as standard system software (and not as separate products) that >makes me think that Apple considers a Macintosh running Multifinder and >Hypercard as their standard system. Voila, I am substandard. At the risk or starting a flame war, I have to comment about this. 1.In the first place, Apple did release HyperCard and Multifinder as separate products (Just ask any one of the thousands of Mac users tha shelled out $49 for each.) 2. You really don't have a leg to stand on when you conclude that an SE with 1 MB is substandard. That are hundreds of thousands of Pluses and 512Es out there that are still useful machines despite the fact that their hardware is even less capable than your SE. You may feel like you need more memory to do everything you like (Who doesn't), but you can use your SE in its present configuration to run either Multifinder or HyperCard. >If you worked for me, at the very least, you would be severely reprimanded >for insulting the customers. And I would probably prohibit you from posting >to the net from the Apple machine. no! No! NO!.. The "rest of us" on the net would like to encourage *more* contributions from people at Apple. When you read their posts, you should realize that they are replying as individuals, and not as Apple representatives. Unfavorably commenting on the "professionalism" of their posts is only hurting the net. The tone of the article in question may have been slightly sarcastic, but I wouldn't have considered it insulting, even if it had been directed at me. The next time that you (or anybody else on the net for that matter) feel insulted, try counting to 10 and repeating to yourself "Sticks and stones may break my bones but......" before you flame anybody, especially if your flame has the potential to alter company policies on its employees posting to the net. You may have felt better for 10 seconds after posting your flame, but the consequences of it are probably going to last much longer. ---------- Mark Day UUCP: ..ucbvax!ucsfcgl!mday ARPA: mday@cgl.ucsf.edu BITNET: mday@ucsfcgl.BITNET