Contents:

Statement of Purpose

Several Reasons this Book is Important and Useful

Outline of Chapters (draft)

Chapter 1: Learning the Interface (draft)

About Victor Lombardi

Sleeping with The Enemy: Learning Windows for Mac Users

Outline of Chapters

Brief History of Platforms
Understanding How Things Became So Screwed Up

• Mac's progression to OS 8.x
• DOS, Windows, Windows 95, 98, WinNT 3.51, WinNT 4.0

Hardware
What's Inside that Plastic Box and How to Plug Things Into It

• Buses - PCI, EISA, NuBus, ...
• Input/Output - Keyboards, mice, ports, VGA, S-VGA
• Typical box architecture (basic overview)
• Hard Drives - SCSI, IDE
• Plug and Play
• Compatibility issues
• Video cards and network cards

Interface [ draft of Interface Chapter ]
How to Get Work Done Without Going Insane

• Basics
• Customizing
• Command line
• sound
• second mouse button
• equivalent keyboard shortcuts

Hard, Floppy disk formats
Take Your Work On Put It Back On Your Mac!

• formatting utilities
• HFS, HFS+ (Diagram of Mac capability with each OS version vs. FAT and95/98/NTFS)
• FAT, FAT32, HPFS,95/98/NTFS can address 16 exabytes (16 million gigabytes)

Equivalent Software Packages
"I use such-and-such software on the Mac, what's the equivalent for Windows?"

Using Windows Software

• Installing, configuring, and re-installing software
• Add/Remove control panel
• The Registry
• Running apps off a server

Troubleshooting

• Startup discs
• Backups
• Registry
• Norton
• Restarting Apps, services, soft reboot and hard reboots
• Viruses

The Future of Apple and Microsoft's Operating Systems
talk about future directions, technologies, who they're targeting...

• Windows 2000
• IPv6
• Active Directory
• RFCs
• Mac OS X

All material ©1999 Victor Lombardi