From: johnsd2@jec310.its.rpi.edu (Daniel Norman Johnson)
Subject: Re: Justin, go back into the woodwork........
Reply-To: johnsd2@rpi.edu
Organization: Information Technology Services, Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 04:07:09 GMT

In article <Paula_Lieberman.04p4@amicol.UUCP>, Paula_Lieberman@amicol.UUCP (Paula Lieberman) writes:
|> The person who felt that Macs could not support the software he develops
|> HAS a Mac IIsi on his desk, and has had Macs on his desk where he works for
|> years. However, the stuff he writes needs more power and more speed and
|> better multitasking that Macs can use.
                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

You mean "than MacOS has", right? I mean, I know of no reason why
a Mac could not run an OS with cool multitasking, whatever you feel
that means.

|>  The company he works for is a fully
|> certified Mac developer and has all the documentation and hundreds of Macs
|> just at the site he works at alone. He's a former Mac owner; he ditched the
|> one he had several years ago because he wasn't using it.

An excellent reason to ditch it, too! :)

|>  He also has
|> dumped the GUI on the Suns he uses; he for while had been using SunView and
|> all the GUI stuff on it,

Can't blame him. I (a certified MacHead) have done the same thing (I
generally use a SPARCstation for usenet); This is because SunOS's GUI,
tho innovative in its way, needs MUCH work. Its very limited, unless
I am missing something big about it.

That's why I am using mostly text windows under the twm window manager
(twm is fast and flexible, and I have nothing better right now);

Doesn't make me less fond of the Mac, however. Makes me wish SPARCs ran
MacOS. :) [<-- note smiley! hold your fire!]

|> but now just uses plain text windows, for what he
|> was doing all the WIMPy stuff was just getting in the way of him doing
|> software development for applications that are actually in use in various
|> places outside of where he works.....        Anyhow, he does real software
|> that customers pay real money for on REAL UNIX computers.......

I presume FAKE UNIX = A/UX? :) But of coure, I would not say Unix
is a great GUI machine. There are too many GUIs that you have to
support, and none of the ones I have yet seen are very strong.
(I've seen Motif and Open Look, and the X-toolkit's results of course
[If you want to call that a GUI] which is to say "not very many")

PS is he a REAL MAN, too? Does he eat quiche? [sorry, but c'mon you KNEW
somebody had to say that right?]

|>  and he has
|> looked at porting the software over to Macs, and HE as a software developer
|> and Mac user feels it's NOT doable!

Its probably not worth doing. But I've noticed you've never said (in
any post that *I* have read anyway, and at least not in this one) what
the heck he was not able to port. Remember, the Mac is not a very
powerfull computer computation-wise, and there are plenty of things
that'd just overload it. Unix boxes, from what I have seen, tend to much
rather a lot more powerfull, and it may be that he needs that power.
Has he (would he) port it to OS/2? GEOS?

As to why co-operative multitasking is not good enough for this guy,
I do not know, and I doubt I ever will unless somebody tells me
what these programs do.

Tho I'm afraid these questions may have been answered, and I just
missed it. Hmmmm.. better get into the asbestos underwear. If you
haven't and can't, then this arguement boils down to argument
by (unnamed) authority. Better the Blantant Assertion, I suppose. :)

-- 
			- Dan Johnson
And God said "Jeeze, this is dull"... and it *WAS* dull. Genesis 0:0

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