Re: help!!

[Dan Scanlan <dscanlan@xxxxxxx>]

Title: Re: help!!

> heck, I
> hear all the time that Macs are technically superior to PCs (or at
> least that the Mac OS is superior to Windows). They're not? Is
> nothing sacred? Say it ain't so, Joe!
>  
> in my humble opinion,
> the ability to tweak a program is half the fun. It's one of the
> reasons why I stuck with WordStar for so long. (It also had a very
> small footprint relative to MS Word.)
>

When Macs first came out, MacWrite, MacPaint and System/Finder all fit on a 400k disc. MS Word required a separate disk. Then Word grew to six or seven disks, etc. etc. I have Word on my Macs only to open others' files. I can convert them automatically, but then I see all the garbage at the end -- the changes made along the way, things that have been edited out but still live within the file.

The operative maxim here: Word will expand to fill the available real estate.

There are several Windows emulation programs that allow, I am told, some Windows programs to run faster than on a PC. The complex AutoCAD program is one of them. Go figure.

Actually, you can tweak the user interface on a Mac all you want. There's a cult of PC-type enthusiasts who do just that and then give away their patches. Even neophytes can alter the appearance of the interface at will with various control panels and shareware.

Tweaking programs is not everyone's idea of fun, and chasing software bugs appeals to very few, especially those of us who are constantly hit upon to solve problems for friends and then have to spend half a day messing with some nerd's idea of "easy" on an operating system that steals some of the best of the Mac (like cut, copy and paste) and all of the worst of DOS.

As someone once said, "Windows is a 32-bit interface to a 16-bit shell to an 8-bit patch to a 4-bit operating system built by a 2-bit company that can't stand 1-bit of competition."

But what the hell do I know...I'm a Nader voter.

Dan Scanlan