Plea from Macland

[Steve lelch001@xxxxxxxx]

> BTW, wasn't there some other people on the list that had tested this?
>

Aha! At last I found the note to which you're referring, and reproduce
it here.

Steve Lelchuk
Principal Secretary       User Services Specialist
Minnesota Center for      Department of Philosophy
 Philosophy of Science     University of Minnesota
mcps@xxxxxxxx         lelch001@xxxxxxxx

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From: Harmon Seaver 
Reply-To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Unix and XyWrite and whatnot

    Guess I'd have to disagree on the point of OS/2 being more
thoroughly debugged than Linux, but that's beside the point, at this
point. The problem is more one of OS/2 being essentially in the same
boat of XY -- no future. Linux, OTOH, has an excellent future -- and
runs XY extremely well, getting better all the time. Not to mention that

Linux also has an excellent *free* office suite in Staroffice, and now
also a *free* Corel WordPerfect 8 release.
   However, as much as I love Linux, I reached a point awhile back
where I came to the conclusion that I simply had to upgrade my old
version of Pagemaker. I was still hanging onto OS/2 because I have a
copy of Aldus Pagemaker for OS/2, v. 2.5. And 2.5 just don't cut it
anymore -- but the new versions of Pagemaker is for W95, not for OS/2.
And don't hold your breath for a Linux version. I was on the verge of
having to break down and install loser95 on my home machine (and I know
all about 95 and NT, folks, I administer over 100 networked PC's on the
job), and then something really fantastic happened.
   Apple came out with the G3 PowerMacs --- machines over twice as
fast as the fastest Intel boxes. Simply incredible hardware -- and Intel

admits they won't have anything that fast for two years! Next thing I
knew, I did something I never, ever, dreamed I would do -- I went and
bought a new PowerMac. Me? I used to laugh more at Mac users than windoz

losers.
    Oh dear. My staff at work was almost as flabbergasted as I was --

maybe more so. "You did what?" "Uh, where are you going to get software
for it?" Hey -- it sure solved my Pagemaker upgrade problem. Pagemaker
6.5 on a Mac is slick. So are all the other DTP and graphix software on
the market -- and, to my amazement, I found out that things like
Photoshop and Pagemaker actually run faster and better on a Mac -- that
they are designed for Macs, and only ported to windoz boxes in a
diminished way.
   And you know what else? XY works absolutely great on the Mac too.
Flawlessly. So do almost any DOS or windoz apps. Know what else? I run
OS/2 Warp 4 on my Mac as well, in a little window on my Mac desktop. You

can also run w95 or NT the same way -- in a little $50 program called
Virtual PC. Fast too. XY4 starts up in under 6 seconds. OS/2 takes about

the same time to boot as on my intel 166mhz. And you can cut and paste
between it and the Mac desktop.
   Incredible! Know what else? I absolutely love my Mac. That's the
way a GUI is meant to be. Yeah, I know, MacOS has a way to go in some
respects -- but they'll have it knocked out pretty soon. But the
interface itself is just too nice. And easy! Geeezz. Everything just
plain works -- no screwing around. No fighting to get things installed.
   I still run Linux on two other machines at home -- I've got a small

Dec Alpha running RedHat 5.2 for a file and print server, and another
linux intel box for playing unix stuff with, and linux on my laptop. But

for work -- for just getting stuff done, writing, DTP, graphix, etc --
it's all on the Mac. Now I know why Macs are the standard in the
publishing, graphix, and music industries.
   So if you're looking for a fast, solid tool to get your work done
on, without all the insanity of trying to keep a windoz box up and
running, get a new G3 Mac.

--
Harmon Seaver hseaver@xxxxxxxx
http://harmon.bml.usouthal.edu
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