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To: drmorgan who wrote (16775)	1/26/1998 9:38:00 PM
From: Justin Banks	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

<OFF TOPIC> Derek - Quick question, how can you live without a right mouse button? For that matter, how do you live without a middle one? BTW, were in Utah do you live? My wife and I just moved out to MN from SLC. -justinb

To: drmorgan who wrote (16775)	1/26/1998 11:23:00 PM
From: nommedeguerre	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

Derek, >>Norm, I have used MACS for ten years and have far more crashes than I can possibly remember. The most stable OS I have ever used is OS/2 and now I am using NT, which so far is extremely stable, a very good OS indeed. Everyone has different results with different machines and my experience (especially when running CAD) with MACS has been absolutely awful. I am no historian on the Macintosh and I am sure they will crash when a poorly-written piece of software runs wild on them. For some reason OS/2 is the one system that no one has ever said anything really bad about. Of course, that was after IBM cleaned up the mess MSFT left them and re-released it. Based on my experience I have found that the real machine-killers are software apps that skirt the OS system calls in order to improve I/O performance. CAD programs usually have drivers that do this to improve graphics performance or even file I/O. Memory leaks are the other killer that most programmers never seem to test for. Hopefully CAD programs have improved in the last few years but I remember the guys beating on their PC monitors when AutoCAD and Schema went to lunch. It used to be tough on all fronts for sure. >>Quick question, how can you live without a right mouse button? I think if you are a CAD user you are benefitting more from a second button than most users. I have three on my Sun and seldom use more the left button. Sometimes I have found it faster to just use hot-keys to get things done which is faster than popping up a window and positioning the mouse cursor. Touchscreens are also faster than a mouse for some things as are lightpens and digitizers. The right tools for the job make a big difference. To be honest I have found that designing many things is still faster with paper and pencil used for the rough draft and then transferred to the software tools for refinement. Whatever works best for the individual. As far as NT goes, its seems stable on the workstation I am using for NT development. Cheers, Norm