Re: FLASH: OT: IE 5.5 Beta-- Man its fast.

[Frank]

Many of you  may be disturbed by my assumption, but I thought this board was

a place to discuss Flash, not squabble about who in the playground has a

better computer, Mac or PC. Their is more than enough to chat about with

Flash. Save it for another board...

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From: Korhel Shawn <

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Date: Friday, December 17, 1999 3:15 PM

Subject: RE: FLASH: OT: IE 5.5 Beta-- Man its fast.



>One question, if I may...?

>

>If Mac is laggin behind a puffin and a raspin because the PC market is now

>stealing it's only lifeblood left (graphics), then why is 78% of the

>internet still designed on Mac platforms (1999 statistic)?  And to further

>back Wayne, why is our Military, starting with the Army,  switching it's

>entire base of PC servers to Mac for better security? Is that notorious

>'They said' responisble here?

>

>I don't even use Mac (Intergraph 400 MHz dual processor) but, in using them

>occasionally and based on my cross platform experience,  I believe they've

>been WAY ahead of the game when it comes to making hardware/software work

>with streamlined precision..

>

>-----Original Message-----

>

From: Wayne Townsend [waynetabsolute [dot] net (mailto:waynetabsolute [dot] net)]

>Sent: Friday, December 17, 1999 12:46 PM

>

To: flasherchinwag [dot] com

>Subject: Re: FLASH: OT: IE 5.5 Beta-- Man its fast.

>

>

>Hi John,

>

>>

>>It's just that I have been slowly making my way from the

>>Graphic Design side of the house to the

>>Backend Design side of the house and there are

>>several more varieties of tools for backend programming

>>for the PC than there is for the Mac.

>

>

>Hold on there, John...

>

>Actually, the Mac has a server cgi authoring tool that blows away

>anything in the PC area by far.  It's called Flamethrower, and is

>based on Supercard and the Supertalk language, which has been around

>since '88 and has a *cult* following.  Lingo itself is *ahem* is very

>similar to the Supertalk language, which was on the market years

>earlier.  John Gay himself, the father of Flash, came from the

>development group that developed Supertalk (Silicon Beach).  The good

>news is that the language is english-based in its syntax, and

>therefore easy to learn by novices.  Far easier and faster to develop

>with than Perl or C. With this tool, you don't have to know much

>about how servers work in order to write server apps.

>

>So, bottom line is, anyone wanting to develop comprehensive custom

>server apps, should consider this incredibly capable and easy to use

>program.  I'll never write another CGI in perl or C again, anymore

>than I'll ever build another website in html.  Flamethrower is the

>Flash of the server world, IMHO.

>

>As far as servers themselves go, Apple currently has a clear

>advantage. The G4 macs are simply faster than Sun and NT servers.

>There are ISPs that have both, and will confirm that for anyone who

>doubts it.  For example, here's a quote from another commercial

>software developer who has both...  (In reference to a large

>computing project (SETI))

>>Glad to see these Mac's are cooking the Dual PII 400's running NT I got

>helping Team SC. The best they can do is 11 hrs and change and that's

>with 800 MHz of pure Intel power!

>

( from Steve MacLean, MadMan Software stevemadmansoft [dot] com (mailto:stevemadmansoft [dot] com) )

>

>Also, FWIW, quoting New Media Magazine, "The Mac outperformed both

>Sun and NT boxes... the mac served over three times more pages than

>the Sun, and over seven times the NT".

>

>I can confirm this in the real world too, since I've worked in

>environments with all three for years.  I don't care what name is on

>the box, I just want reliability, performance, and ease of

>administration.  What shocked me most though was how good the little

>iMacs are as servers.

>

>Macs also run UNIX Apache server software, which is the most popular

>server software in the world by far.  That's what I use.  Apache is

>on all variety of server platforms, but the mac version has a nice

>front-end interface that makes it painless to administrate - no unix

>to learn.

>

>You can find out about Flamethrower at http://www.SolutionsEtcetera.com/

>And UXIX Apache for the Mac (WebTen) at http://www.tenon.com

>

>Authoring environments are one thing, and we all have our favorite

>platform, but web developers should stay platform independent in

>their thinking when it comes to back-end, and just go for what

>performs the best for their audience.

>

>ATB,

>

>/wayne

>

>Wayne Townsend

>

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>

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