[tbontob]

Originally posted by Phoenix-D:
"On the Mac it was a simple matter to change resolutions and colors...just go into the control panel. Couple of seconds and done"

It is in the PC too. Batch files are for those extra-lazy people who don't mind tweaking (oxymoron?)

LOL OK.

About Windows, everyone knows it is just a pale immitatator of the older Versions of the Mac OS.

(tbontob knows he is waving a red flag to Fyron, but does it anyways. )

But joking aside...

On the topic of floppies, the mac would automatically put an icon of the floppy (and other drives) in the upper right corner with the name of the particular floppy. It would also give the name of the floppy, so at a glance you could confirm whether you had the right floppy in the drive.

It would do this for other drives, CD-Rom's etc.

Kinda nice to have all your drives grouped together on the desktop. The Trash would also be there which made it easier to find. I had it at the bottom of all the drives so it only took a split second to trash something.

If you want to eject the floppy you can do it from the desktop by putting the floppy into the trash. Easier than fumbling around for that little button on the floppy drive.

Also on shutdown, the floppy automatically ejects. I don't know how many times my PC stalled on startup because I had a floppy in the floppy drive.

More to the point, I can't count the number of times I was in a real hurry, started up the computer, ran away to do a chore, come back a few minutes later and Aaarrrrrrhhhhhhhhh, it was hung up on the floppy in the drive.

Can the stock PC/Windows imitate the Mac on this?

And in the older Versions of OS, maybe even older than OS7 in 1991, you could set it to automatically give the sizes of folders. Twelve years later XP, still cannot automatically give me size of the folders as there isn't an option for it in View/Choose Details.

[ May 26, 2003, 16:35: Message edited by: tbontob ]