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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Adobe Type Manager
Message-ID: <1989Sep16.030547.10105@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 16 Sep 89 03:05:47 GMT
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Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
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Organization: North Coast Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, OH
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General gripe:

All this neat new stuff -- Multifinder (not that new any more), ATM, System
7.0, etc. -- is great.  But us people with 1MB Macs are rapidly being
disenfranchised.  Heck, with the Grappler LQ stuff loaded I can't run
HyperCard.  Add ATM to the System as well, and I probably won't be able to run
a word processor with all the printer stuff loaded.  Which means that I may as
well not have a printer in the first place.

Sigh.  The Macintosh mentality seems to be that everyone is rich enough to buy
everything needed (68030, 4MB+ RAM, 32-bit color display, ...) to run the
Latest and Greatest, and "the rest of us" are pretty well screwed.  That isn't
what the Mac mentality is *supposed* to be, if Apple's ads are to be believed;
it's what it *is*, though.

(HINT, HINT, Apple and the rest of you!  I STILL think it's ridiculous that I
could upgrade an XT-clone with monochrome text display to a 386 with hi-res
graphics for $700, but I can't upgrade my Mac SE to a 68030 and hi-res
graphics for under $2100!)

End of general gripe.

++Brandon
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