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Re: A83: Help

Or for those who own PowerBooks and Duos Command-PowerKey and if you have MacsBug installed you have almost the lowest level control possible. The debuggers even run after the system has crashed! It lets you force quit, look at your memory's contents as text, even lets you control your cd-rom (audio) drive. Try that with DOS (although there are some CD player progs for DOS that are similar.

More later,
Nick

Grant Stockly wrote:

Iceman:  You're wrong.  Press the triangle button on the bakc of the
computer, and the mac instantly has 10x the controll that DOS does...  :)

>THe only thing that I don't like about a mac is that there is very little low
>level control. Windows 95 is slowly taking the control away from the user, but
>it is possible to control it and keep it from booting. DOS gave the user
>ulitmate control. But windows and MacOS take it away. THat and I don't under
>stand macs. Also I think Xerox came up sith the first GUI interface

Xerox came up with it, apple paid to use their ideas.

>> Of course! The Amiga is way better than both PCs and Macs. I'm using one
>(for
>>  coding (assembler & c), making music, doing school work, surfing, playing
>>  games etc.) and I've _never_ been disappointed but at _one_ thing: The lack
>> of
>>  software. But on the other hand, I can't say I miss Micro$oft...
>>

 
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