By: ELP - 25th January 2003 at 04:58
RE: Any wide eyed Mac zeolots here
[updated:LAST EDITED ON 25-01-03 AT 05:00 AM (GMT)]4×5 and 8×10 view camera negatives and transperancies. Granted not a common item. Very large files. But as you may know there is less and less need for film as time goes on.
No I don’t know the answer to your second question.
By: mixtec - 25th January 2003 at 00:05
RE: Any wide eyed Mac zeolots here
ELP- Im curious, what do you do with $20000 scanners? Also another question: Back in 86 a guy showed me this printout of a scanned photo that was made up of ASCI figures. Do you know where I could find a program that does that, it would be convenient to show photos on newsgroups that dont support photos or linking.
By: ELP - 23rd January 2003 at 23:45
RE: Any wide eyed Mac zeolots here
Hand you would know this ( looking at your flag 🙂 ) Whats the deal with Mandrake? They are now charging for Linux distros?
By: mixtec - 23rd January 2003 at 23:38
RE: Any wide eyed Mac zeolots here
“Just FYI , I work on both Unix and Win2k platforms and I souldn’t reboot my Unix box more than twice a year.”
Hand87- Windows has always had problems with memory leaks. Keep in mind that Bill Gates and Paul Allen are self taught programers, stability and security in their environment are just not up to industry standard.
By: Hand87_5 - 23rd January 2003 at 09:17
RE: Any wide eyed Mac zeolots here
I’m in the computer business.
I agree with Eric on this matter.
Before W2k Microsoft stuff was crap. Not stable , a lot of blue screens.
MAc OS is more focused on application and “easy-to-use” oriented.
They have invented icons and this kind of stuff.
Unix is the Rolls Royce. Easy , stable and reliable. Linux guys made a lot of efforts to develop some sexy User Interface.
Just FYI , I work on both Unix and Win2k platforms and I souldn’t reboot my Unix box more than twice a year.
By: ELP - 23rd January 2003 at 05:07
RE: Any wide eyed Mac zeolots here
[updated:LAST EDITED ON 23-01-03 AT 05:15 AM (GMT)]I do a lot of photo retouching. Up until Windows 2000 and WinXP, Nothing on the Windows side of the house was reliable. Windows 98 did not use protected memory and would “Blue Screen of Death” you when doing a lot of Photoshop stuff ( swap file ).
Win NT was unfriendly to a lot of high end scanners and photo output devices.
The Mac was stable and hooking up to a professional scanner or output device was a breeze. In the mid-90s Kodak came out with highy productivity software like KPIS for the Mac used for high volume photo printing. Stable, reliable, etc.
I started on Photoshop in 1990 on a Mac IIFx ( 68000 motorola chip ) lots of RAM hooked up to devices like the early Nikon film scanner, Kodak XL7700 printer via a GPIB board. The photography was stored on a 650 meg. optical disk ( CD witers ( 2x ) would come out the year after in the $40000 ( U.S. ) price range 🙂 At this time Windows was a joke for this work. Windows 3.0 had a 16 Meg RAM limit. Windows 3.1 fixed this but still, the whole platform was unstable for this kind of work. In high end photo processing, equipment that isn’t reliable isn’t tollerated.
Now. While OSX is cool, Unix, and fast, it is going though font management problems and hardware legacy issues ( if you have an expensive $20000 (U.S.) scanner that is over 2 years old you may be in trouble. The shoe is on the other foot.
Now what I use are Win 2000 and XP machines hooked up to digital cameras via firewire and output it to the Kodak ML500 printers ( also firewire ) Everything works great.
Years ago for certain jobs there was nothing that could touch the MAC. It took the Windows environment this long to catch up. Kinda sad. Now big articles in MAC magazines are how to fix all the OSX problems.
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