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Non-Tech : Any info about Iomega (IOM)? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: AreWeThereYet who wrote (47958)	2/16/1998 12:22:00 AM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 58324

*OT* >>About reliability, I can tell you that Mac's magic bomb (system crashed) showed up as frequent as Windows 3.1X's UAE when I took computer science few years ago.<< Andy - That may be true, but today's Macs running OS 8.1 are far more stable than machines running Windows 95 and even NT. Moreover, if you want to uninstall a piece of software on a Mac, you don't have to buy another piece of software to find all the crap the first software's installation routine left all over your hard drive. And you don't have to worry about your registry getting all screwed up. - Allen

To: AreWeThereYet who wrote (47958)	2/16/1998 12:48:00 AM
From: Edward Ip	Respond to of 58324

>I agree with you about the compatibility issue but not on the Mac vs Win95... Mac achieved PnP by using expensive propriety components in early years until recent. Also prior System 8 Mac used cooperative multitasking. About reliability, I can tell you that Mac's magic bomb (system crashed) showed up as frequent as Windows 3.1X's UAE when I took computer science few years ago. Fortunately, the only applicaiton required Mac is "Logicwork". Even our Unix system network down occasionally. The main reason why I think your Macs at your computer science class crashed is probably too many students are screwing around with it. Yes, nothing is fool proof. But Windows in comparison to other os are much more unstable. Anyway, we should really get back to IOM on this thread :) BTW: I realized one thing is that most companies that are being suit by shareholders, their stocks don't get effected at that great of extent. Take a look at WDC. They were recently being suit by shareholders, and their stock actually when north since the suit. So think 'bout it.... Also, is there anyone out there participating on this shareholder suit? Fill us a little more info on that.(Don't worry, we won't make you feel bad for suiting, ok? At least I won't.) Ip