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To: LexBaird
Which was exactly the goal of Jobs. Except where MS wanted to own the OS Jobs wanted to own the motherboard AND the OS. Macs are seriously overrated, they are better machines than PCs but not that much better and the default decisions of Jobs (no floppy, 1 button mouse) are idiotic. And the fact that it took them to the mid 90s to finally stick a print buffer in the OS shows how entirely non-revolutionary they always have been and always will be.
14 posted on 02/04/2004 10:43:05 AM PST by discostu (but this one has 11)
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To: discostu
"...and the default decisions of Jobs (no floppy, 1 button mouse) are idiotic."

You are welcome to your opinion, but as a PC@work/Mac@home person, I find the floppy to be useless and can function just as well with a one button mouse as a two button mouse. One of Jobs other stupid default decisions was to junk all the legacy crap and go strictly USB (and later USB/firewire). What a maroon!

50 posted on 02/04/2004 12:57:45 PM PST by Boss_Jim_Gettys (Howard Dean for Ambassador to the Soviet Union!)
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To: discostu
. . . and the default decisions of Jobs (no floppy, 1 button mouse) are idiotic. And the fact that it took them to the mid 90s to finally stick a print buffer in the OS shows how entirely non-revolutionary they always have been and always will be.

While there might be some argument in the "one button" argument, your "no floppy" does not fly. Apple stopped including built in floppy drives when CD writing became feasible and most small files were transfered over networks or the internet... Jobs was not even at Apple at that time. I had one of the last Macs that had a floppy and I can count on the fingers of one hand how many times I used it. For those who needed a floppy, Apple and 3rd party manufacturers were already producing USB externals that worked fine. . . but few were sold.

As for your "print buffer" claim. Your ignorance of the Macintosh is showing.

The Macintosh OS has had a print buffer since OS 3 or 4, sometime around '87 or '88, it was just called something different: background printing. The buffer was in the System folder called Print Cache and later Print Monitor Documents.

72 posted on 02/04/2004 6:34:07 PM PST by Swordmaker (This tagline shut down for renovations and repairs. Re-open June of 2001.)
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To: discostu
no floppy

Ditching the floppy was one of the best things ever. The PC world finally picked up on this for laptops, and is starting to do it with desktops.

83 posted on 02/04/2004 7:48:35 PM PST by antiRepublicrat
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