From: raist@rmece02.upr.clu.edu (Ricardo Hernandez)
Subject: Re: Macintosh bigots
Organization: UPR-Mayaguez--ASEL Lab
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 02:57:23 GMT

In article <By1oo1.8A7@javelin.sim.es.com>, mmunson@animal.es.com (Mark Munson) writes:
|> In article: <GERRY.92Nov17180007@onion.cmu.edu> states:
|> 
|> GR> Mac zealots, like mmunson for exmaple, remind me of xian
|> GR> fundementalists.  No matter what evidence you shove in front of their
|> GR> face, they simply ignore it.  Go ahead Mark, enjoy your Mac.  It's a
|> GR> toy computer, but hey, if you like it, then fine.  Just don't try to
|> GR> change the world so that I have to suffer with your religion.
|> 
|> GR> --
|> GR> Gerry Roston (gerry@cmu.edu)    | The vanity and presumption of governing
|> GR> Field Robotics Center,          | beyond the grave, is the most ridiculous
|> GR> Carnegie Mellon University      | and insolent of all tyrannies.  Man has no
|> GR> Pittsburgh, PA, 15213           | property in man; neither has any generation
|> GR> (412) 268-3856                  | property in the generations that are to
|> GR>                                 | follow.  Thomas Paine
|> 
|> 
|> Hmm..  What evidence have we seen?   "...it won't format floppies in the
|> backgroun."  "...it's multitasking ins't pre-emptive."  "It's too expensive."
|>
   Add to that:  System 7.0 is a dog on low-end machines (read Plus, classic II,
performa 200), since multitasking is not pre-emptive, it has more consequences.
 
|> I'm not ignoring this stuff, I just don't think it's really that important
|> when compared with the rest of the positive evidence.

   There are a lot of positive things, I agree.  But this stuff is what some people
try to justify here as unimportant, when it isn't.  I can imagine "system 8.xx" when
the Mac finally preemptively multitasks, a lot of Mac Users (not all of them, I 
don't want to generalize) seeing it as a "great new benefit."  IT HAS HAPPENED BEFORE.

|> You folks just need to lighten up a little.  This IS the Mac-Advocacy board.
|> If you're really offended by hearing about the good and bad points of the
|> Macintosh, then why are you here?  You don't see me on the Amiga. NeXT or PC
|> oriented advocacy boards trying to convert the world.

   Let's say that some people can't cope with people that justify things without
any good arguments, and when shown the proof in the face, they just shrug, ignore
it, or even deny it.

|> BTW:  I'm running on an X/UNIX workstations right now.  I must be too much
|> of a Mac zealot to know the difference right?

   Well, if you say it ;-)

|> [MGM] (short form)
|> 
|> (long form / how to contact me) :
|> 
|> Mark G. Munson  (mmunson&animal.es.com) | Spoken here:  ANSI C     Mac/GSToolbox
|> Engineer / Visual Simulation            |               SAS        MVS
|> Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp.       |               Pascal     UNIX
|> POB 58700, SLC, UT 84158                |               BASIC      MS-DOS
|> (801) 582-5847                          |               ForTran    UNIX
|> 

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