Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!jhunix!esp_05 From: esp_05@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Stdnt 05) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Shareware MAC Message-ID: <3566@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> Date: 7 Dec 89 20:16:10 GMT References: <89120107511652@masnet.uucp> Reply-To: esp_05@jhunix.UUCP (Stdnt 05) Organization: The Johns Hopkins University - HCF Lines: 17 Although Apple's DOS is really (IMHO) messed up, you have to hand it to them for doing a really, really nice job with their graphics and user interface routines. Anyone who suggests that creating an Apple clone would be like creating an IBM clone, do-able by a small group of hackers in their spare time, probably hasn't programmed a Mac. Once you program a Mac, you can really appreciate the time put into that part of their OS when you realize that maintaining windows on the screen in virtually EFFORTLESS. I find myself quite impressed by many aspects of the toolbox, and I realize why the original low-powered Macs were awkward to use and am surprised why it took them so long to implement their OS on a better machine, the Mac II. If I were writing a clone of the MAC OS, I wouldn't know where to begin. Eric Ruck