alex@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us (Alex Pournelle) (03/28/90)
>You guys [at DTS] must have a good number of people who do nothing more than >full time hand-holding for the programming wizards at Microsoft; >imagine where we could be if DTS wasn't there to patiently explain why >you shouldn't specifically check for the 68881, or for the presence of >a LaserWriter before enabling font scaling. Or jumping directly into the ROMs once they "know" what kind of computer they're on. Ask Dave Small about programming around MicroSofty code & doing 7 impossible things in software to make Word work on an Atari ST.... ...On the other hand, if you can find one, the STacy makes a wonderful, lighter, slimmer, more capable Mac Portable than the real 'un. Heh. Alex
mwilkins@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Mark Wilkins) (03/28/90)
In article <1990Mar28.094309.717@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us> alex@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us (Alex Pournelle) writes: >...On the other hand, if you can find one, the STacy makes a wonderful, >lighter, slimmer, more capable Mac Portable than the real 'un. H> Lighter? Slimmer, more capable, and definitely cheaper, maybe, but someone quoted 15 lbs in comp.sys.mac.hardware, whereas Apple's is a pound lighter. Worth $4,000 to me. :-) -- Mark Wilkins mwilkins@jarthur.claremont.edu