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From: nilesinc@well.UUCP (Richard Niles)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: some general Mac questions
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Date: 11 Jul 89 17:50:47 GMT
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in article 37640 (of 37735), mithomas@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Michael Thomas Niehaus)
writes: I didn't know that the system software "special cased" anything that
Microsoft produces.
 
Actually, the Mac System special cases a *lot* of stuff for Microsoft:
it's left over from 1984  and Mac introduction.  If you were trying to sell
a new OS, wouldn't you special-case for the only big software company 
writing on your computer?  I'm not saying that it makes sense now, but I can
see why it made sense then...