Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???

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From: Karl Thomas
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 1996 01:58

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Remy Saville <rem@guild.bc.ca> writes:

>Kenneth Jason Fair wrote:

>When I formated my IBM disk to a mac format the Powermacs froze while that 
>happened, sure I rarly ever format a disk, but it is nicer to do it on a 
>OS/2, Win95, or even amiga where you can still work.  Also last at my high 

I  can still work while formatting a disk.  Use a freeware program called 
Disk Charmer if thats so important to you.  But I use Zip disk most of 
the time.

>school when printing we had to wait while the slow dot matrix printers 
>worked away, something that even win3.1 didn't need to do.  I don't know if 
>the macs were configured wrong or whatever, but that lack of multitasking 

They were configured wrong.  Go into Chooser and select background printing.

>sure made me want to use an IBM, especially if I knew everybody was going to 
>try and use the printer at once...  It would be nice if the next mac os is 
>able to multitask those two tasks.

It can.  Anything else?

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From: kathomas@nyx.cs.du.edu (Karl Thomas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
Date: 8 Feb 1996 18:58:16 -0700
Organization: University of Denver, Math/CS Dept.
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