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- From: BARBOSE@AppleLink.Apple.COM (Amoco Technology, Jeff Barbose,VAR)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.oop.macapp3
- Subject: Re2: Defections from BedRock?
- Message-ID: <727744619.4223528@AppleLink.Apple.COM>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 22:59:00 GMT
- Sender: daemon@Apple.COM
- Organization: AppleLink Gateway
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- >the Mac wasn't that useful until Macs
- >appeared with Lisa-level hardware: 512K and a hard drive).
-
- Excuse me?
-
- I bought a Mac a few weeks after their introduction (I was an undergrad at CMU,
- which was an Apple Consortium school and so we got 'em early :) and could do
- more with MacWrite and MacPaint in 10 minutes than I could accomplish in a
- whole hour with EMACS/MINCE-plus-Scribe.
-
- There WERE plusses to the fact that the original machine was a closed 128K
- machine: since resources were tight, early developers were forced to use the
- toolbox whenever possible. This set the important early precedent for the
- Mac's later success: developers played by the rules and the users came to
- demand inter-app consistency.
-
- Just imagine if, say, Microsoft had a relatively large application space to
- play with. Yikes! look at the Windows-like crud they're passing as Macintosh
- apps now! They practically reinvent the toolbox, not to mention the Human
- Interface at every turn (if you don't believe me, try and see what percentage
- of the time Word uses the Macintosh Window Manager vs. the times it rolls its
- own)
-
- Don't forget, Joe Average User isn't gonna wanna cope with something as baroque
- (read: powerful?) as UNIX or NT.
-
- Jeff
-
-