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From: peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org (Michael Peirce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Macs cost too much (NOT!)
Date: 24 Jul 92 01:11:51 GMT
Reply-To: peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org (Michael Peirce)
Organization: Peirce Software
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.5v4


In article <1992Jul23.143042.14243@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> (comp.sys.mac.misc), smoon@strfleet.gsfc.nasa.gov (Sang J. Moon) writes:
> 
> I've been using System 7 with tuneup 1.1.1 for about 6 months now, and I've
> had to reinstall system 7 and/or rebuild the desktop file an average of
> twice a month.

I've never had to reinstall my system on my Quadra since the day I
bought it (about 9 months).

What's in your system that makes it so unstable?  I have a fair number
of inits, though most are commercial or one's I've written :-) and
I do development on the machine.  Sure I've crashed it - I am writting
software - but I really have never had to reinstall.

System 7 w/ Tuner is a VERY stable system.  It's a credit to the
people who put System 7 together.  I'm impressed with the terrific
job they did!  

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From: jwang@phy.duke.edu (James Wang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: PMMU for LC?
Date: 31 Jul 92 14:27:32 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C.

In article <mikew.712526840@kpc.com> mikew@kpc.com writes:
>Can you install a PMMU on an LC so that you can use the virtual memory
>capabilities of System 7? Can you run A/UX on an LC? If you have
>a PMMU on an LC can you have more than 10 megs of Virtual Memory?
>--
>Mike Wexler (mikew@kpc.com)

While I haven't seen PMMU's directly sold for the LC, one company in the Sep.
issue of MacUser was advertising this thing called the EqualizerLC, which is
basically a 030 accelerator (w/ or w/o FPU).  Now since every 030 should have
PMMU built-in, that may do the trick.

As for running A/UX, I doubt the LC have enough disk space or speed to digest
that kind of powermonger.  Virtual memory will slow things down even further,
but if 10 megs of RAM is not enough..
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
Subject: Re: Macs cost too much (NOT!)
Organization: Engineering, CONVEX Computer Corp., Richardson, Tx., USA
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 16:09:45 GMT
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

In <92206.135238ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET> ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET writes:


>Because I read the subject of this thread "Macs COST too much". Of course I
>could compare a VW Rabbit to a Corvette to proof that american cars are better
>than german.

Your claim was not about cost, but about speed.  You chose an expensive, 
top-of-the-line PC against the bottom-of-the-line Mac II to prove your
point.  Not even Mr. Moon has been inane enough to suggest that you can
buy a flow-blown 486 for the same price as a IIsi.  

What you really proved is this.  Even when the bottom-of-the-line
Mac II is compared to the top-of-the-line PC, using a benchmark written
by a PC zealot (hence, undoubtedly, highly optimized for the PC and not
optimized at all for the Macintosh), the difference in numbe-crunching
performance is still only a factor of five.  The Quadra, which is at 
least ten times faster than the IIsi, would undoubtedly blow your big
blue socks off.  (Actually, knowing the lengths that PC zealots will
go to stack the cards in their favor, I wonder if you even bothered to 
install the floating-point unit in the IIsi.)


>No it just means I can`t afford a mac with the power of my PC.

No, it means that you can't afford a Mac that will run an artificial
benchmark as fast as a PC for which the benchmark has been optimized.
This is typical of PC users who mistake performance on some specific
benchmark with actual computing power.
From: v065hjku@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Jason Osborne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: looking for Jeff Turner
Date: 22 Jul 92 17:27:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

Jeff- please drop me an email note.  I need to get in touch with you!

______________________________________________________________________________
Jason Osborne | Disclaimer: Who'd listen to me anyway?
______________________________________________________________________________
For information on the Underground Phont Archive, drop me a note via email
______________________________________________________________________________
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: stu5s11@bcrka280.bnr.ca (David Simmons 1342678)
Subject: Re: Is DEC history???
Reply-To: stu5s11@bnr.ca 
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 20:16:00 GMT

DEC isn't quite out of it yet. If the Alpha makes it, then
they're position quite well in the market. In terms of
performance, the Alpha seem to be superior to the PowerPC
chip. (Based on what I've read.) In addition they've got a
list of ways that will make the Alpha a 1000 times
more powerful during the next 25 years.

The big question is marketing. Can they sell the chip and
get a few major design wins? (ie. If Motorola hadn't gotten
the Macintosh, the 68000 would not be doing as well as
it is today.) The biggest advantage right now is the Alpha-
Windows NT alliance.

If anything comes of this alliance, then Alpha might become
the continuation of the PC line, especially now that the
next-generation PC-risc development group has fallen apart.
(Whatever it was called)

Which brings this to the reason why this is interesting to the
mac group. It's possible that the next ethnic conflict may 
be AppleIBM-Pink-PowerPC vs. DECMicrosoft-Windows-Alpha,
paralleling the current Mac vs. PC conflict. Does anyone
want to propose an Advocacy group now, while there's still
time. We can spend the next two years just discussing the
RFD.

---------------------------------------------
John Andrusiak. 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: maynard@esther.msc.cornell.edu (Maynard J. Handley)
Subject: Re: Macs cost too much (NOT!)
Organization: Cornell-Materials-Science-Center
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 22:06:31 GMT

Is there a port of gcc for the Mac? Yes. But only gcc 1.37, not gcc 2.*. To
run it you need parts of MPW. You can get the gcc port from ftp.apple.com.
Will gcc 2.* ever be ported? Well probably one day when someone gets round
to it. GNU boycott just means the GNU people won't do it themselves, not
that no-one is allowed to do it. And GNU boycott may drop if Apple loses
the lawsuit- who knows?

Maynard Handley
From: dwf@kepler.unh.edu (Dennis W Fitanides)
Subject: need help ftping a file
Organization: University of New Hampshire  -  Durham, NH
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 17:27:06 GMT


Please reply to nezwek@lmig.com

I'm trying to ftp a file from mac.archive.umich.edu that has a "hqx"
extension.  When I try to ftp a file with this extension in "Mac Binary"
mode I get the error: " file does not respect the Mac Binary format".
If I ftp it as straight binary, I receive it but unstuffit does not know
how to extract it.  Can any one help me out with this?  Please reply
to nezwek@lmig.com as my site does not have a newsfeed. yet!
Thanks
Tom Nezwek
Systems Administrator
Liberty Mutual
nezwek@lmig.com
From: Patrick Parker
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: AppleShare Question
Date: 28 Jul 92 18:22:25 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Minnesota

I'm running a computer lab with 15 local computers logging on and assorted
others that log on through the Ethernet from other zones.  My problem is that
students have been apparently giving out their usernames and passwords.  So,
lately I've been seeing two of these usernames logged on simultaneously.  I
know that AS3 allows you to configure to require the user to change the
password after xx many days, but that seems like making the hundreds pay for
the indiscretions of a few.

Is there something that will disallow the logging on of someone if the user is
already connected?  This is quite frustrating.

Secondly, is there anything out there yet that will replace the print server or
work in tandem with it that tracks users printing loads or will even
intelligently compile the print logs?

Thanks....

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Patrick Parker
College of Pharmacy
University of Minnesota
pharmacy@epx.cis.umn.edu
From: chopper@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (OOI)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Floptical Diskdrives
Date: 30 Jul 92 15:05:41 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept, QMW, University of London



Hello,

I am trying to get some data from people who have used
floptical disk drives. 
There is a special offer on(inUk)
which apparently, part for an internal for around 400 pounds
and the disks come at 19 pounds each.

I follow this net regualarly, and the questions I would ask
is
 1.   whether they are a cost effective medium (in comparison
      with a standard optical drive as prices are getting lower)
 2.   How are they in reliability and access speed.

 3.   Could I expect slow Hard disk performance or am I looking at
      a replacement floppy drive?

Thanks for any responses.
From: mike_steiner@qm.claris.com (Mike Steiner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Macs cost too much (NOT!)
Date: 21 Jul 92 19:32:22 GMT

In article <ajross.711691406@husc9>, ajross@husc9.harvard.edu (Andrew Ross) writes:

> Get a life folks.  Instead of taking the arguments as civilized people,
> you have all, to a person, come out in rabid flame to defend your
> computers.  I never said I disliked macs.  I use them regularly.  I also
> use PC's.  I had exactly $3,000 to spend. I knew what was available, what
> I could do with it, and how much it cost.  I chose to buy a PC Clone. 
> Deal with it.  The point of my posts was to try to defuse what I though
> were some serious misconceptions I saw in these groups (which I read, by
> the way--imagine that).  This was obviously not communicated very well.
> 
> As a point to leave you with, consider this:  I have not seen one even
> slightly moderate viewpoint espoused here.  Each of these replies have
> been written either in condescention (see above) or outright hostility. 
> One must wonder if this is due more to insecurity than rightious
> conviction.  I, once upon a time, used an Atari 800, and then a 520ST and
> watched precicely the same thing happen to its user base as Atari failed. 
> I do not believe that the Mac is a dying computer, but I believe you all
> should take a hard look at your motives, and perhaps try to tone down your
> arguments long enough to see things from other points of view.
> 
> [end of sermon]

I recall the original message containing hostility and condescention.
Apparently, it is OK to lambast the Mac with hostility and condescention,
but not to reply to hostility and condescention with the same.  There is a
word to describe that attitude.  I'll let you look it up in your thesaurus.
From: umcho000@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Connie Cho)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Powerbook, Price Club, pricing
Date: 25 Jul 92 23:23:39 GMT
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

In article <00Fx03hv44Tp00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> jsp@pls.amdahl.com writes:
>nick@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) writes:

  [stuff deleted]
>"Bigger screen size"?  Compared to the PB100?  I don't think that's correct;
>the 100 and the 140 have exactly the same screen; same size, same everything.
>
>Gotta agree about the trackball, though.  I love my 100, but the trackball
>is pretty wimpy.
>
>--James Preston
 In the August '92 Macworld (U.S./Canada) Quick Tips, there is a
rather in depth advice on what kind of marbles you can buy to
replace that light little trackball. You need the smoothest 25 mm
marble you can find. I am going to try out this suggestion to
find a heavier ball for an Appoint Mouse pen I own. It's been
useless so far because the ball is so light it won't turn the gears
properly, making the mouse great for drawing straight lines andnothing else.

CKC
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: vturner@fred.nmsu.EDU (Vaughan Turner)
Subject: Re: bad floppies
Organization: Klein Bottles Inc.  Help Wanted: Inquire Within
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 18:42:54 GMT

The most I ever used the init is in a lab where disks are recovered.

We didn't want to give students our disks, so BAD was really nice, since
we could reformat their marginal disk and give them their files, suggesting
they buy a new disk to transfer things onto.

We kept their files on the hard drive for a few days too, just in case their
disk didn't make it to the bookstore and back.

This allowed us to be more of a one-stop shop, and helped move more people
through the procedure faster.

Just my $.02 worth,

Vaughan
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From: mike_steiner@qm.claris.com (Mike Steiner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Macs cost too much (NOT!)
Date: 23 Jul 92 21:12:36 GMT

In article <92205.170150ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET>, ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET writes:

> >> I let my boss buy me an IIsi for office and bought myself a 386 for home.
> >
> >That statement alone reveals much about your character....
> >
> Yes it`s fine! My boss has to pay me at work. So for him the Mac is the better
> deal. At home nobody pays me but I have to pay the computer. So for me the
> 386 is the better deal. Were is the problem?

IOW, your time is valuable to your boss, but not worth much to you, right?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: dauter@terminator.cc.umich.edu (M. David (first initials are in style) Dautermann)
Subject: why use BinHex...Re: need help ftping a file
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc
Summary: why mac.archive uses BinHex on all it's files...
Keywords: mac, archive, pd, binhex, shareware
Organization: They don't pay me enough to have one
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 19:01:11 GMT
Expires: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 04:00:00 GMT

In article <1992Jul29.172706.557@newshost.unh.edu> dwf@kepler.unh.edu (Dennis W Fitanides) writes:
>
>Please reply to nezwek@lmig.com
  
I'll send Dennis a copy of this....

>I'm trying to ftp a file from mac.archive.umich.edu that has a "hqx"
>extension.  When I try to ftp a file with this extension in "Mac Binary"
>mode I get the error: " file does not respect the Mac Binary format".
>If I ftp it as straight binary, I receive it but unstuffit does not know
>how to extract it.  Can any one help me out with this?  Please reply
>to nezwek@lmig.com as my site does not have a newsfeed. yet!
  
Mac.Archive keeps all of its files in BinHex format as it's easier
to handle (i.e. you can segment, cut, copy, paste pieces of a 
BinHexed file into an e-mail message or another file, we have a 
mail server -- which will SOON be online and available for everyone... 
not YET tho! -- that will depend on the files being BinHexed for it
to be able to e-mail files to users).  

To transfer the files, just use Text or Ascii format and then unbinhex
the files using Compact Pro 1.33 or Stuffit Lite.  If anyone needs
copies of these files and doesn't have BinHex, mail me a disk and
an SASE and I'll send it back to you full of these programs.

My address is 

Mike Dautermann
UM-CITI
519 W. Williams
Ann Arbor, MI  48109

hope that's cool...

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From: bc@Apple.COM (bill coderre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Powerbook 100 and the others!!!
Date: 29 Jul 92 02:40:10 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA

In article <Bs41Ct.9rI@DMI.USherb.CA> martin@DMI.USherb.CA writes:
|I think that by today standards, Apple should drop the Powerbook 100
|and by the way the Classic. The latter is by far to slow. The Classic II
|would become the entry level mac. After, Apple should come with a Classic IIe
|(or something) that would look (in all aspect) to the SE/30 but with
|more power.

Well, I think that by today's standards, GM should stop selling
Camaros, beause they are far slower than Corvettes.

Of course, the people who can't afford Corvettes should just walk.

bill coderre
drives a somewhat older american "true" sports car
From: hooverb@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu (Bruce Hoover,Armstrong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: How to increase transfer speed in Kermit
Date: 26 Jul 92 06:29:15 GMT
Originator: hooverb@a.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu

From article <25JUL199219242022@oregon.uoregon.edu>, by ccyang@oregon.uoregon.edu (Chun-Ching Yang):
 > I just bought a 14,400 Modem. However, after trying to download the data from
 > the VAX in the university, I found the download speed from the mainframe to my
 > Mac was slow. The transfering speed was about 560 byts in each  TWO seconds. If
 > the high speed modem worked fine, then the transfer speed should be about
 > 1,440  in ONE second. (Is that right?)
 > I have check the VAX and the modem there is 14,400. I don't expect that the
 > speed can  reach 1440 in a second but the speed I got was so slow. How come?
 > 
 > Can anyone help me solve this problem?
 > 
 > 

Well, for starters, you might try using ZModem... when I used Kermit, it
rairly achieved above 40% efficiency, whereas ZModem is often over 95%.

Bruce

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: kontio@niksula.hut.fi (Ari J Kontiainen)
Subject: Address of author of Greg's Buttons?
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Distribution: comp
Date: 28 Jul 92 21:38:43

Do someone know a working address to the author of Greg's Buttons?
Thanks.

	Ari
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Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.misc:13563 comp.sys.mac.hardware:13969
From: ayeh@sdcc13.ucsd.edu ({{{= Achilles =}}})
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Voice Impact's problem with PowerBook 100
Date: 22 Jul 92 00:20:52 GMT
Followup-To: poster

Hi, it's me again.  I have been spending sometime debugging the
PB 100 after I bought rt ecently.  I encounter some problems with
Voice Impact sound digitizer.  Sound Wave and Sound Edit can't
detect the digitizer at all( yes, I changed the port setting to
printer port).  The digitizer works perfect with other Macs.  Why is
that?  Is it something to do with the serial port on the PB 100?
Note: my external modem works perfectly with the printer port.
Help!

Thanks for your time.
Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.misc:13852 comp.sys.mac.system:10417
From: bauman@casc.math.uh.edu (Evan Bauman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Mac IIci memory question
Date: 27 Jul 92 16:30:07 GMT
Organization: UH Dept of Math

I know this has been discussed to death in this newsgroup years ago, but...

My wife just got a Mac IIci at her workplace with 5MB of RAM.  I remember
some discussion here a while back about optimally configuring the RAM.
Something that had to do with the disk cache and the built-in video
adapter.

Does anyone have this info archived?  If so, would appreciate a copy or
a pointer to an nonymous ftp site.  Thanks in advance.

	Evan Bauman
	bauman@shell.com (preferred)
	bauman@casc.math.uh.edu
From: meg5184@hertz.njit.edu (Starman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Trouble with mcvert Unix util
Date: 28 Jul 92 11:49:37 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1992Jul27.173913.620@risky.ecs.umass.edu> breck@ganzer.ecs.umass.edu writes:
>memory, so I checked the memory settings in Get Info.  After a long
>pause, the Get Info box appeared.  Recommended was n/a, Current was
>zeroK.  Setting Current to a couple hundred K didn't help.  Some of

[stuff deleted]

AHA!!!!! I had the same problem. Oddly enough, I found a version of
mcvert 1.65 and THAT crashed so it may be the new UNIX OS that we're
running here at NJIT. Any help, people?

=============================== Mike Gaines ============================
              We come in peace, and you blatantly defy that peace!
                               We haven't fired!
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========================== meg5184@hertz.njit.edu ======================
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: zimmy@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu (Michael Zimmerman)
Subject: au<->snd utility crashes for me, help needed.
Originator: zimmy@fermion.eng.ohio-state.edu
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Electrical Engineering
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 16:17:46 GMT

I can not seem to get in touch with the author of au<->snd.  My mail
bounced.  I am having trouble using this prog (from sumex) to convert
large (1.8 meg) .au files.  My IIsi freezes after about five seconds.
Anyone have any suggestions?  Is the author out there?

Thanks
Mike
 
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From: yuan1@husc9.harvard.edu (Nina Yuan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Memory diagnostic program recommendation wanted
Date: 23 Jul 92 15:21:12 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc9.yuan1.711904872
Distribution: na

I'm looking for a memory diagnotics/"system snooper"-type program for the
Mac.  Does anyone have an favorite program (public domain/shareware/commerical)
or pointers to recent reviews?

Thanks in advance,
-nhy


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