Info-Mac Digest V7 #44
Posted: March 10th, 1989, 1:04 am
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Info-Mac Digest Thu, 2 Mar 89 Volume 7 : Issue 44
Today's Topics:
AppleDraw V4.1.1 Pictures
A Terminal Emulator for a TI931
Coral vs. Exper Lisp [was Re: Info-Mac Digest V7 #39
Definative Filename XCMDs
finder hanging on Jasmine DD140
Fonts & DAs over a server
HP Deskjet Driver
Hypercard Merge Info
keystrokes and short-cuts update (feb 1989)
mac mh?
Military OCR Fonts
My gif Mailing list
No intelligent life in AppleLand (Marketing only, of course)
SFScrollInit INIT
Slide Printers for the Mac
Trap routines/Pascal compilers
VAX/Mac fileservers for applications
VirusDetective 2.1.1
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Lance Nakata, Jon Pugh, and Bill Lipa.
The Info-Mac archives are available (by using FTP, account anonymous, any
password) in the info-mac directory on sumex-aim.stanford.edu [36.44.0.6].
Please send articles and binaries to [email protected].
Send administrative mail to [email protected].
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Date: Thu, 02 Mar 89 10:54:03 EDT
From: Guenther Blaschek
Subject: AppleDraw V4.1.1 Pictures
This HQX document contains 15 pictures for various purposes, e.g.
- a time table
- a map of the US
- a table of several AppleDraw shortcuts
- pictures (diskette, etc) that can be loaded into other pictures
- a memo template
The BinHex file's size is about 23k. I leave it up to you to "waste" that much
space on your server...
e Guenther Blaschek
gu EMail:
SNail: University of Linz / Austria
Institute of Computer Science / Software
Altenbergerstr. 69
A-4040 Linz
Tel.: +43 (732) 2468 / 447
[Archived as /info-mac/art/appledraw-pictures.hqx; 23K]
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 89 12:52:25 CST
From: [email protected] (Andy Edwards)
Subject: A Terminal Emulator for a TI931
This may be a bizarre request, but does anyone know of an existing
emulator for a Texas Instruments 931 terminal for use on a Mac II or
Mac SE? It is to be used in conjunction with a TI330(?) business
system.
If you have any ideas on the subject, please let me know directly at
[email protected]
Thanks,
Andy Edwards.
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 89 15:10:01 WET
From: Flash Sheridan
Subject: Coral vs. Exper Lisp [was Re: Info-Mac Digest V7 #39
>Are ExperIntelligence's [Lisp] products worth considering?
No no no no. Our department is stuck with the turkey they [not I]
call ExperCommonLisp. It's not Common Lisp, and it's not much good.
If you *really* want it, I'll try to sell you our 8 copies, so our
students can use Coral [now Apple].
The *only* good thing about ECL is that it will run in 640K or
so, Coral CL needs almost a Meg [don't know about Pearl].
From: [email protected] (Flash Sheridan)
Reply-To: [email protected]
Portal,MacNet: FlashsMom
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 89 10:18:30 PST
From: [email protected]
Subject: Definative Filename XCMDs
Here is a re-reworking of Steve Maller's Filename XFCN and some
others. This stack contains Filename, NewFilename, and SetDirectory
for complete Hypertalk control of file manipulation in the
standard Macintosh manner. These dialogs center themselves over
the card window, so they are asthetically pleasing.
Andrew Gilmartin started this stack and I merely rewrote the XFCNs
(there was a minor problem in them) and added my SetDirectory
XCMD. I also modified some of the documentation and included
the source code so that aspiring Hyperhackers can see how to do
some of this stuff. I ran this by Andrew and he liked it so,
here it is. It can replace the old one that has been in the
archive for quite some time.
Jon
N L [email protected]
M A L National Magnetic Fusion Energy Computer Center
F T N Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
E L PO Box 5509 L-561
C Livermore, California 94550
C (415) 423-4239
[Archived as /info-mac/hypercard/xfcn-filestuff.hqx; 27K]
------------------------------
Date: 1 Mar 89 10:03 EST
From: DIXON WALTER V
Subject: finder hanging on Jasmine DD140
I have seen these symptoms, but I suspect that their cause may
be different. In my case I had moved A/UX to a Jasmine DD140.
The driver which came with my Jasmine disk did not work under
A/UX, so I used the Apple driver. I used A/UX to set up the
new disk (ie dd all partitions except the root which I wanted
to make bigger). The MacOS booted fine after cloning, but I
was unable to create large files from the Mac side. After a
great deal of grief and no support from either Apple or Jasmine,
I traced the problem to write blind operations. Since I eliminated
write blinds from the Apple driver, I have had no problems.
I guess the moral to all this is do you know where your SCSI
driver came from?
Walt Dixon {ARPA: [email protected] }
{US Mail: ge crd }
{ po box 8 }
{ schenectady, ny 12345 }
{Phone: 518-387-5798 }
PS I understand that Jasmine is working on an A/UX compatible
driver. It may be available now.
--------
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 89 08:15:01 EST
From: jonathan%[email protected] (Jonathan Leblang)
Subject: Fonts & DAs over a server
Instead of stuffing all of the fonts and DAs into the applications themselves,
you can use Suitcase II or Font/DA Juggler Plus to open font and DA files
over the network. I currently run a network that has 25 dual drive mac SEs
and an AppleShare FileServer and access a 2.5 megabyte file of fonts and DAs
>From all the networked Macs and suffer little performance problems. There is
a cost associated with this implementation, but maybe someone could develop
a shareware or freeware utility that accomplishes the same thing.
jonathan leblang
the MITRE Corporation
McLean, Virginia
[email protected]
703 883 5761
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 89 14:17 EDT
From: Brian Lockrey x4-7281
Subject: HP Deskjet Driver
We are looking for a MAC to HP-Deskjet driver. We have heard of the
following products: Orange Micro, GDP and DataPak.
Does anybody used any of these products? Recommendations?
Brian Lockrey
[email protected]
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 89 10:49:42 EST
From: "William T. Harris" (PAO)
Subject: Hypercard Merge Info
How can I merge two stacks into one? Must I write script? Have two stacks with mail labels that I want to merge into one. Each contains about 500 addresses.Thanks. Bill Harris (201) 724-6364.
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 89 15:59 GMT
From: Ed de Moel
Subject: keystrokes and short-cuts update (feb 1989)
As I promised, this is the list so far.
I only received the information from other people, so keep
the responsibility for the validity of the information where
it belongs, i.e. not with me...
If anyone finds errors, or has additions, please let me know.
I will gladly modify and update the list.
Ed de Moel.
Physically: Electronically: Hybrid:
University of Utrecht BITNET: demoel@hutruu51 Phone: +31 (30) 532239
Princetonplein 5 DIALCOM: 12428:PGA005
PO BOX 80000
3508 TA Utrecht
The Netherlands
[Archived as /info-mac/misc/short-cuts-and-options.txt; 26K]
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 89 12:06:19 PST
From: Ann McLaughlin
Subject: mac mh?
could anyone give me pointers to mac mh? i have
mh, and am interested in the mac front end.
i am looking for more information on the program,
how to get it, whether the source is public domain etc.
(responses to [email protected], please). -ann
------------------------------
Date: 2 Mar 89 16:12:00 EST
From: [email protected]
Subject: Military OCR Fonts
Does anyone know where I can get a font that is usable in the military
(Air Force) message OCR systems? I would like to be able to prepare
the messages on my Mac and print them with a Laserwriter, but none of
the fonts I have are the standard Government OCR-10 or OCR-12 fonts. I
currently do not have the time or talent to design my own, is there
anything out there? Any help is appreciated!
Roger Thrasher
[email protected]
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 89 17:51:10 -0500 (EST)
From: Michael Joseph Darweesh
Subject: My gif Mailing list
If there is anyone out there who wants to get in
on my gif mailing list deal, write me now!!
Also , if I you have submitted a request for gif pictures
to me and I haven't responded yet, then please
send more mail perhaps under another address.
I have had trouble responding to quite a few addresses.
Let's get giffing!!!
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 89 02:06:25 EST
From: Alexis Rosen
Subject: No intelligent life in AppleLand (Marketing only, of course)
I've heard bad news about Apple before. When they didn't announce an
'020 in 1986, I knew that that was bad. When they announced a Mac II
with lots of wait states at 16MHz I wasn't thrilled. When they proudly
announced that they were going to rest on their laurels for the duration
of 1988, and not trouble their souls to bring out a better Mac, I was
really upset. But this latest announcement surely brings Apple to
astonishing new depths.
The announcement I'm referring to, of course, is the decision to trim
back the R&D budget as a percentage of sales. (While this may not imply
actually reducing R&D spending, that depends on how well they do in the
next few quarters.) Regardless of the actual dollar figures, this means
major changes in Apple's R&D efforts. Products will get shelved, or
floated out into an unprepared marketplace to "sink or swim" on their
own. Product Managers and engineers, working under short-term contract,
may not be retained for the long term, and this will worsen the already
chaotic state of employee affairs.
I could say that this showed a lack of marketing wisdom, or poor
judgement, or bad timing, but that doesn't _begin_ to describe my dismay
and _fury_. I think that this decision is _abysmally stupid_. It
demonstrates a feeling for this business roughly on a par with that of
my six-year-old cousin's. These are very harsh words [net readers may
recall that the last time I was so unequivocal was quite a while ago,
over the trashed hard disk caused by the first bugridden version of
SUM]. Nevertheless, I feel that they are fully justified.
Now more than ever before, Apple cannot afford to reduce its R&D
efforts. The products that Apple needs to introduce over the next year
are legion. Token Ring, Laptop Mac, Tower Mac, FourSquare, new Monitors,
new display cards, the MacAPPC board, the QuickDraw accelerator, the
multi-user Mac, I/O boards, new printers. AppleTalk 2.0, MR-DOS 2.0,
System 7.0, a new Resource Manager, A/UX 2.0, HyperCard 2.0,
Protected-mode MultiFinder... the list is endless. The Apple engineers
can do the job- all of the technical people at Apple that I know are
excellent. The question is, can marketing figure out what to do with
these products? If not, they will never be released, and both we and
Apple will suffer.
More distressing to me than any single consequence of this decision to
cut R&D is what it tells me about Apple's most senior management. In a
typical business, it would be natural (and wise) to seek to reduce your
cost of goods if your gross margin went down. In fact, this policy
change is exactly what you would expect from a maker of apparel... or
soft drinks. Naturally, we look to the leader of an organization for
guidance when it stumbles. The guidance we are seeing here is indeed
John Sculley's. And that is the most disturbing fact of all.
To end this little tirade, I would like to cite a study I read of in PC
Week several months ago. Of the top seven R&D spenders (per employee),
Apple came in first by a wide margin. This made me feel very good, until
I noticed that the _last_ company, with only half of Apple's R&D, was
Sun Microsystems. And the second and third companies, right after Apple,
were Lotus and Ashton-Tate.
Alexis Rosen
alexis@ccnysci.{uucp,bitnet}
------------------------------
Date: 1 Mar 89 07:00:42 GMT
From: [email protected] (Roger L. Long)
Subject: SFScrollInit INIT
SFScrollInit is an INIT by Andy Hertzfeld that enhances Standard File.
It causes Standard File to remember the last scroll position for each
directory. This version is reentrant, which means it's compatible with
programs that call SF from within SF.
[Archived as /info-mac/init/sfscrollinit.hqx; 4K]
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 89 13:15:34 GMT
From: Norbert Bornfeld
Subject: Slide Printers for the Mac
Our department is planning to buy a slide-printer for the Mac. Has
anyone experience with the slide-printers which are commercially
available? Is the Honeywell PCR better than Montage or Mirius?
Waht about PostScript?
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 89 15:39 EST
From: Jeffrey S. Lee
Subject: Trap routines/Pascal compilers
Hello...
I have two questions: First, where can I find a list of the Macintosh trap
routines and their hex addresses? (if someone could send me a copy, I would
be very appreciative.)
Secondly, does anyone have or know of a public-domain (freeware or shareware)
Pascal compiler for the Mac? The only compiler we have here is a shareware
C compiler, and I'm not too familiar with C...
Thanks,
+------------------------------------+---------------------------------------+
|Jeffrey S. Lee |[email protected] |
|Faculty Computing Center |LEE_JES%[email protected] |
|Central Connecticut State University|LEE_JES%[email protected]|
|New Britain, CT | |
+------------------------------------+---------------------------------------+
| DISCLAIMER: The opinions expressed in this letter are my own, and do not |
| necessarily reflect those of the Connecticut State University |
| system. Nor do they reflect light. |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
"Edmund, you've killed Nursie! That's horrid!"
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 89 11:54 EDT
From:
Subject: VAX/Mac fileservers for applications
Greetings,
Well, Colgate is finally going to go BIG-TIME and install a campus-wide
EtherNet to COMMUNICATE! One of our objectives is to replace Mac sw
distribution by diskette with file server SW on our VAX 11/780. I'm looking for
suggestions based on your experience in a similar setting. Here's the
background.
Presently we have 20 (total) Public Macs in 5 sites. (12 in one site, two each
in 4 "satellites"). I anticipate this will grow to about 40 total.
We have a like number of Zenith PC's (XT clones) which we would also like to
include, but only if all other conditions are satisfactorily met.
We don't want to buy a license for every piece of sw for every possible
machine. I am aware of Dopplemaker, but don't know whether it will run on a
VAX host, etc.
I know about TOPS, but would rather not spend the money to make each Mac (PC) a
potential server... Does TOPS have (planning to introduce) strictly client sw?
I know about PacerShare and Alisa... but need some feedback from actual sites
who have several-many users running apps from the server. How fast/slow is it
compared to floppies (which is what our users are used to)? Can the number of
simultaneous users of an application be limited/controlled (ala Dopplemaker)?
Are terminal sessions supported - multiple terminal sessions?
We plan on using Kinetics or Gatorboxes to link or LocalTalk networks into the
Ethernet... which do you prefer?
I'd be happy to summarize the responses if you'd rather send them just to me,
or send them to the net, I check it everyday.
Thanks in advance... you're making real progress possible at Colgate U.!
Peter Jorgensen
Microcomputer specialist
Colgate University - Hamilton, NY 13346
AppleLink - U0523
BITNET - PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
tel - 315-824-1000 ext 742
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 89 09:00 EDT
From: Jeffrey Shulman
Subject: VirusDetective 2.1.1
Date: Wed 1 Mar 89 09:00:07-EDT
From: Jeff Shulman
Subject: VirusDetective 2.1.1
To: [email protected], [email protected]
Message-ID:
Mail-System-Version:
VirusDetective is a DA for tracking down viruses (or any resources) in files.
You specify the resource type and optionally its size, name, id or size
range. Once the offending resource is found it can optionally be
removed from the file (use this feature with caution). The user can update
the search list at any time. Shareware.
Version 2.1 adds JData and Data searches for detecting ANTI and like viruses.
Version 2.1.1 fixes bug where Remove button wouldn't highlight.
Jeff
uucp: ...rutgers!yale!slb-sdr!shulman
CSNet: [email protected]
Delphi: JEFFS
GEnie: KILROY
CIS: 76136,667
MCI Mail: KILROY
[Archived as /info-mac/virus/virus-detective-211.hqx; 57K]
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End of Info-Mac Digest
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From: [email protected] (The Moderators)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.digest
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #44
Message-ID:
Date: 2 Mar 89 22:50:34 GMT
Sender: [email protected]
Reply-To: [email protected]
Organization: The Internet
Lines: 470
Approved: [email protected]
Info-Mac Digest Thu, 2 Mar 89 Volume 7 : Issue 44
Today's Topics:
AppleDraw V4.1.1 Pictures
A Terminal Emulator for a TI931
Coral vs. Exper Lisp [was Re: Info-Mac Digest V7 #39
Definative Filename XCMDs
finder hanging on Jasmine DD140
Fonts & DAs over a server
HP Deskjet Driver
Hypercard Merge Info
keystrokes and short-cuts update (feb 1989)
mac mh?
Military OCR Fonts
My gif Mailing list
No intelligent life in AppleLand (Marketing only, of course)
SFScrollInit INIT
Slide Printers for the Mac
Trap routines/Pascal compilers
VAX/Mac fileservers for applications
VirusDetective 2.1.1
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Lance Nakata, Jon Pugh, and Bill Lipa.
The Info-Mac archives are available (by using FTP, account anonymous, any
password) in the info-mac directory on sumex-aim.stanford.edu [36.44.0.6].
Please send articles and binaries to [email protected].
Send administrative mail to [email protected].
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 89 10:54:03 EDT
From: Guenther Blaschek
Subject: AppleDraw V4.1.1 Pictures
This HQX document contains 15 pictures for various purposes, e.g.
- a time table
- a map of the US
- a table of several AppleDraw shortcuts
- pictures (diskette, etc) that can be loaded into other pictures
- a memo template
The BinHex file's size is about 23k. I leave it up to you to "waste" that much
space on your server...
e Guenther Blaschek
gu EMail:
SNail: University of Linz / Austria
Institute of Computer Science / Software
Altenbergerstr. 69
A-4040 Linz
Tel.: +43 (732) 2468 / 447
[Archived as /info-mac/art/appledraw-pictures.hqx; 23K]
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 89 12:52:25 CST
From: [email protected] (Andy Edwards)
Subject: A Terminal Emulator for a TI931
This may be a bizarre request, but does anyone know of an existing
emulator for a Texas Instruments 931 terminal for use on a Mac II or
Mac SE? It is to be used in conjunction with a TI330(?) business
system.
If you have any ideas on the subject, please let me know directly at
[email protected]
Thanks,
Andy Edwards.
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 89 15:10:01 WET
From: Flash Sheridan
Subject: Coral vs. Exper Lisp [was Re: Info-Mac Digest V7 #39
>Are ExperIntelligence's [Lisp] products worth considering?
No no no no. Our department is stuck with the turkey they [not I]
call ExperCommonLisp. It's not Common Lisp, and it's not much good.
If you *really* want it, I'll try to sell you our 8 copies, so our
students can use Coral [now Apple].
The *only* good thing about ECL is that it will run in 640K or
so, Coral CL needs almost a Meg [don't know about Pearl].
From: [email protected] (Flash Sheridan)
Reply-To: [email protected]
Portal,MacNet: FlashsMom
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 89 10:18:30 PST
From: [email protected]
Subject: Definative Filename XCMDs
Here is a re-reworking of Steve Maller's Filename XFCN and some
others. This stack contains Filename, NewFilename, and SetDirectory
for complete Hypertalk control of file manipulation in the
standard Macintosh manner. These dialogs center themselves over
the card window, so they are asthetically pleasing.
Andrew Gilmartin started this stack and I merely rewrote the XFCNs
(there was a minor problem in them) and added my SetDirectory
XCMD. I also modified some of the documentation and included
the source code so that aspiring Hyperhackers can see how to do
some of this stuff. I ran this by Andrew and he liked it so,
here it is. It can replace the old one that has been in the
archive for quite some time.
Jon
N L [email protected]
M A L National Magnetic Fusion Energy Computer Center
F T N Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
E L PO Box 5509 L-561
C Livermore, California 94550
C (415) 423-4239
[Archived as /info-mac/hypercard/xfcn-filestuff.hqx; 27K]
------------------------------
Date: 1 Mar 89 10:03 EST
From: DIXON WALTER V
Subject: finder hanging on Jasmine DD140
I have seen these symptoms, but I suspect that their cause may
be different. In my case I had moved A/UX to a Jasmine DD140.
The driver which came with my Jasmine disk did not work under
A/UX, so I used the Apple driver. I used A/UX to set up the
new disk (ie dd all partitions except the root which I wanted
to make bigger). The MacOS booted fine after cloning, but I
was unable to create large files from the Mac side. After a
great deal of grief and no support from either Apple or Jasmine,
I traced the problem to write blind operations. Since I eliminated
write blinds from the Apple driver, I have had no problems.
I guess the moral to all this is do you know where your SCSI
driver came from?
Walt Dixon {ARPA: [email protected] }
{US Mail: ge crd }
{ po box 8 }
{ schenectady, ny 12345 }
{Phone: 518-387-5798 }
PS I understand that Jasmine is working on an A/UX compatible
driver. It may be available now.
--------
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 89 08:15:01 EST
From: jonathan%[email protected] (Jonathan Leblang)
Subject: Fonts & DAs over a server
Instead of stuffing all of the fonts and DAs into the applications themselves,
you can use Suitcase II or Font/DA Juggler Plus to open font and DA files
over the network. I currently run a network that has 25 dual drive mac SEs
and an AppleShare FileServer and access a 2.5 megabyte file of fonts and DAs
>From all the networked Macs and suffer little performance problems. There is
a cost associated with this implementation, but maybe someone could develop
a shareware or freeware utility that accomplishes the same thing.
jonathan leblang
the MITRE Corporation
McLean, Virginia
[email protected]
703 883 5761
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 89 14:17 EDT
From: Brian Lockrey x4-7281
Subject: HP Deskjet Driver
We are looking for a MAC to HP-Deskjet driver. We have heard of the
following products: Orange Micro, GDP and DataPak.
Does anybody used any of these products? Recommendations?
Brian Lockrey
[email protected]
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 89 10:49:42 EST
From: "William T. Harris" (PAO)
Subject: Hypercard Merge Info
How can I merge two stacks into one? Must I write script? Have two stacks with mail labels that I want to merge into one. Each contains about 500 addresses.Thanks. Bill Harris (201) 724-6364.
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 89 15:59 GMT
From: Ed de Moel
Subject: keystrokes and short-cuts update (feb 1989)
As I promised, this is the list so far.
I only received the information from other people, so keep
the responsibility for the validity of the information where
it belongs, i.e. not with me...
If anyone finds errors, or has additions, please let me know.
I will gladly modify and update the list.
Ed de Moel.
Physically: Electronically: Hybrid:
University of Utrecht BITNET: demoel@hutruu51 Phone: +31 (30) 532239
Princetonplein 5 DIALCOM: 12428:PGA005
PO BOX 80000
3508 TA Utrecht
The Netherlands
[Archived as /info-mac/misc/short-cuts-and-options.txt; 26K]
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 89 12:06:19 PST
From: Ann McLaughlin
Subject: mac mh?
could anyone give me pointers to mac mh? i have
mh, and am interested in the mac front end.
i am looking for more information on the program,
how to get it, whether the source is public domain etc.
(responses to [email protected], please). -ann
------------------------------
Date: 2 Mar 89 16:12:00 EST
From: [email protected]
Subject: Military OCR Fonts
Does anyone know where I can get a font that is usable in the military
(Air Force) message OCR systems? I would like to be able to prepare
the messages on my Mac and print them with a Laserwriter, but none of
the fonts I have are the standard Government OCR-10 or OCR-12 fonts. I
currently do not have the time or talent to design my own, is there
anything out there? Any help is appreciated!
Roger Thrasher
[email protected]
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 89 17:51:10 -0500 (EST)
From: Michael Joseph Darweesh
Subject: My gif Mailing list
If there is anyone out there who wants to get in
on my gif mailing list deal, write me now!!
Also , if I you have submitted a request for gif pictures
to me and I haven't responded yet, then please
send more mail perhaps under another address.
I have had trouble responding to quite a few addresses.
Let's get giffing!!!
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 89 02:06:25 EST
From: Alexis Rosen
Subject: No intelligent life in AppleLand (Marketing only, of course)
I've heard bad news about Apple before. When they didn't announce an
'020 in 1986, I knew that that was bad. When they announced a Mac II
with lots of wait states at 16MHz I wasn't thrilled. When they proudly
announced that they were going to rest on their laurels for the duration
of 1988, and not trouble their souls to bring out a better Mac, I was
really upset. But this latest announcement surely brings Apple to
astonishing new depths.
The announcement I'm referring to, of course, is the decision to trim
back the R&D budget as a percentage of sales. (While this may not imply
actually reducing R&D spending, that depends on how well they do in the
next few quarters.) Regardless of the actual dollar figures, this means
major changes in Apple's R&D efforts. Products will get shelved, or
floated out into an unprepared marketplace to "sink or swim" on their
own. Product Managers and engineers, working under short-term contract,
may not be retained for the long term, and this will worsen the already
chaotic state of employee affairs.
I could say that this showed a lack of marketing wisdom, or poor
judgement, or bad timing, but that doesn't _begin_ to describe my dismay
and _fury_. I think that this decision is _abysmally stupid_. It
demonstrates a feeling for this business roughly on a par with that of
my six-year-old cousin's. These are very harsh words [net readers may
recall that the last time I was so unequivocal was quite a while ago,
over the trashed hard disk caused by the first bugridden version of
SUM]. Nevertheless, I feel that they are fully justified.
Now more than ever before, Apple cannot afford to reduce its R&D
efforts. The products that Apple needs to introduce over the next year
are legion. Token Ring, Laptop Mac, Tower Mac, FourSquare, new Monitors,
new display cards, the MacAPPC board, the QuickDraw accelerator, the
multi-user Mac, I/O boards, new printers. AppleTalk 2.0, MR-DOS 2.0,
System 7.0, a new Resource Manager, A/UX 2.0, HyperCard 2.0,
Protected-mode MultiFinder... the list is endless. The Apple engineers
can do the job- all of the technical people at Apple that I know are
excellent. The question is, can marketing figure out what to do with
these products? If not, they will never be released, and both we and
Apple will suffer.
More distressing to me than any single consequence of this decision to
cut R&D is what it tells me about Apple's most senior management. In a
typical business, it would be natural (and wise) to seek to reduce your
cost of goods if your gross margin went down. In fact, this policy
change is exactly what you would expect from a maker of apparel... or
soft drinks. Naturally, we look to the leader of an organization for
guidance when it stumbles. The guidance we are seeing here is indeed
John Sculley's. And that is the most disturbing fact of all.
To end this little tirade, I would like to cite a study I read of in PC
Week several months ago. Of the top seven R&D spenders (per employee),
Apple came in first by a wide margin. This made me feel very good, until
I noticed that the _last_ company, with only half of Apple's R&D, was
Sun Microsystems. And the second and third companies, right after Apple,
were Lotus and Ashton-Tate.
Alexis Rosen
alexis@ccnysci.{uucp,bitnet}
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Date: 1 Mar 89 07:00:42 GMT
From: [email protected] (Roger L. Long)
Subject: SFScrollInit INIT
SFScrollInit is an INIT by Andy Hertzfeld that enhances Standard File.
It causes Standard File to remember the last scroll position for each
directory. This version is reentrant, which means it's compatible with
programs that call SF from within SF.
[Archived as /info-mac/init/sfscrollinit.hqx; 4K]
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Date: Wed, 01 Mar 89 13:15:34 GMT
From: Norbert Bornfeld
Subject: Slide Printers for the Mac
Our department is planning to buy a slide-printer for the Mac. Has
anyone experience with the slide-printers which are commercially
available? Is the Honeywell PCR better than Montage or Mirius?
Waht about PostScript?
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Date: Wed, 2 Mar 89 15:39 EST
From: Jeffrey S. Lee
Subject: Trap routines/Pascal compilers
Hello...
I have two questions: First, where can I find a list of the Macintosh trap
routines and their hex addresses? (if someone could send me a copy, I would
be very appreciative.)
Secondly, does anyone have or know of a public-domain (freeware or shareware)
Pascal compiler for the Mac? The only compiler we have here is a shareware
C compiler, and I'm not too familiar with C...
Thanks,
+------------------------------------+---------------------------------------+
|Jeffrey S. Lee |[email protected] |
|Faculty Computing Center |LEE_JES%[email protected] |
|Central Connecticut State University|LEE_JES%[email protected]|
|New Britain, CT | |
+------------------------------------+---------------------------------------+
| DISCLAIMER: The opinions expressed in this letter are my own, and do not |
| necessarily reflect those of the Connecticut State University |
| system. Nor do they reflect light. |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
"Edmund, you've killed Nursie! That's horrid!"
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Date: Thu, 2 Mar 89 11:54 EDT
From:
Subject: VAX/Mac fileservers for applications
Greetings,
Well, Colgate is finally going to go BIG-TIME and install a campus-wide
EtherNet to COMMUNICATE! One of our objectives is to replace Mac sw
distribution by diskette with file server SW on our VAX 11/780. I'm looking for
suggestions based on your experience in a similar setting. Here's the
background.
Presently we have 20 (total) Public Macs in 5 sites. (12 in one site, two each
in 4 "satellites"). I anticipate this will grow to about 40 total.
We have a like number of Zenith PC's (XT clones) which we would also like to
include, but only if all other conditions are satisfactorily met.
We don't want to buy a license for every piece of sw for every possible
machine. I am aware of Dopplemaker, but don't know whether it will run on a
VAX host, etc.
I know about TOPS, but would rather not spend the money to make each Mac (PC) a
potential server... Does TOPS have (planning to introduce) strictly client sw?
I know about PacerShare and Alisa... but need some feedback from actual sites
who have several-many users running apps from the server. How fast/slow is it
compared to floppies (which is what our users are used to)? Can the number of
simultaneous users of an application be limited/controlled (ala Dopplemaker)?
Are terminal sessions supported - multiple terminal sessions?
We plan on using Kinetics or Gatorboxes to link or LocalTalk networks into the
Ethernet... which do you prefer?
I'd be happy to summarize the responses if you'd rather send them just to me,
or send them to the net, I check it everyday.
Thanks in advance... you're making real progress possible at Colgate U.!
Peter Jorgensen
Microcomputer specialist
Colgate University - Hamilton, NY 13346
AppleLink - U0523
BITNET - PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
tel - 315-824-1000 ext 742
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Date: Wed, 1 Mar 89 09:00 EDT
From: Jeffrey Shulman
Subject: VirusDetective 2.1.1
Date: Wed 1 Mar 89 09:00:07-EDT
From: Jeff Shulman
Subject: VirusDetective 2.1.1
To: [email protected], [email protected]
Message-ID:
Mail-System-Version:
VirusDetective is a DA for tracking down viruses (or any resources) in files.
You specify the resource type and optionally its size, name, id or size
range. Once the offending resource is found it can optionally be
removed from the file (use this feature with caution). The user can update
the search list at any time. Shareware.
Version 2.1 adds JData and Data searches for detecting ANTI and like viruses.
Version 2.1.1 fixes bug where Remove button wouldn't highlight.
Jeff
uucp: ...rutgers!yale!slb-sdr!shulman
CSNet: [email protected]
Delphi: JEFFS
GEnie: KILROY
CIS: 76136,667
MCI Mail: KILROY
[Archived as /info-mac/virus/virus-detective-211.hqx; 57K]
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