Posted by Crayon on February 10, 1999 at 21:42:50:
:This is a good idea... MS took MacOS and imitated it,
Its annoying that so many people think this ... the original inverter of the entire GUI OS was Xerox not realizing what they had developed they showed their product to both M$ and Mac both companies basically bought as many employees as they could from Xerox to develop their own product yes mac realized its product before M$ but they both started development at about the same time
:I agree that 2 button mouses should be integrated into the mac os. Oh wait, they already are! You :can buy a 2 :button mouse for mac and configure the second button for command-click, which does the exact same thing as a right :click in most mac programs, and now in the OS as well.
Not really important I think too many buttons get in the way some times I think you can get some PC mice that have like four buttons +wheels.
:Yes. There are many programs that are very easy to use. Batch Typer, FileTyper, FileBuddy, to name a few. They're :all freeware. It's very easy, and I can change as many as I want at a time. There are many different FTs and :Creators, true... but they are far more descriptive than extensions. When a you :download a file, it is often :automatically FT'd and Creator'd based upon the extension.
Good fer Mac
: : You can do the PC equivilant in seconds (ren *.txt *.html, or something like that).
: Hmmm, takes me seconds to do it on a mac, too. It's even easier... Drag. Click.
: :Well, what extensions does the net use? htm, html, gif, jpg, tiff, mov, ra, ram, txt, cgi, pl, et cetera. Wait, PCs use all of those too. Amazing.
: Wow, that's a completely unrelated observation. You must realize, though, that none of this matters, because pc or mac, every file type must be specified to be useful on the net. What do you thing those application type x-/realaudio things are in Netscape or IE? They tell your browser what to do with the files... they also tell your browser what to save them as... FT and Creator taken care of, no sweat. While these filenames are used, they are not lost on a mac. I use these filenames almost as much as the average pc user does. But I'm not confined to them. Incidentally, I can add a .sit to any file or folder on my mac, and the built in stuffit engine compresses the file or folder for me, and as well or better than any other compression scheme. Deleting the .sit extension from an archive automatically decompresses it.
Why do you think they net uses extions instead of the mac stuff because its easier, quicker and most all machines that make the internet possible are extension based maby? I suppose its good that mac now at least has compatibility for this
:BIOS is an outdated relic of DOS. On a mac, there are programs to do just that through the main operating system. :And it's as easy to overclock a 604e or a G3 as a :Pentium or Pentium2.
I am fairly certian that you can OC a celron more than a G3 ... 300a to 500Mhz i dono i havent had much experance in this .... But so you know there is BIOS on a mac its just more accessible to the OS you can do this on a PC too but yea BIOS is what loads all the low level drivers for all the basic hardware the fact that you refer to it as a out of date relic is rater amusing
:Ah, but you misunderstood him, he said "Mac motherboards have all the NECESSITIES built-in." That means that you :don't have to have an extraneous sound card or video card to be able to run your computer. I can pop open the cover :of my mac, slip in a nice hefty 3D card or professional sound card, close the cover, and boot up, and it actually :works... that plug and play thing, ya know.
integrated Motherboards are in genaral faster than the ones that arnt i will admit.. However the ability to have ONLY the hardware you need/want on you motherboard is a deffinate advantage ...
:I really haven't seen any innovation on the part of the pc hardware market at all... And that is what computer :technology needs, innovation.
most innovation takes place cross-platform ... IE faster Cdroms for all Dvd OGL 56k modems etc...
:Maybe things would still happen, but you've gotta admit that Microsoft stole the idea of Windows from the MacOS in :the first place. There are other examples as well.
M$ and Mac both stole from Xerox ...
:Apple's doing pretty damn good right about now. Anyone who says that Apple is dying or isn't making a profit is :just misinformed. Apple had over $150 million profit in Q1 this year. That's not exactly doing bad.
Good for Mac however I think if you added up all the profits for all the PC companies it would be alot more than that And even though the history presented is vastly inaccurate the main point is that mac offered a complete working unit that was affordable before any other company did this was the reason for there success in the beginning