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From: ccc_ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Checking Mac model (was Re: Accepting the Mac (was ...))
Message-ID: <252.2607e9d9@waikato.ac.nz>
Date: 21 Mar 90 08:53:44 GMT
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In <2595@unocss.unomaha.edu>, dent@unocss.unomaha.edu (dent) writes:

"The current state of programming on the Mac seems to be filled with minor
inconsistencies that require the /programmer/ to correct for.  Is this
machine an SE?  Do this... is it a Mac II?  HasColorQD is TRUE.. but then
it could be an SE/30 too, so better check for that..."

Speaking as a Mac programmer who's been at it for about three years
now, I have to ask: "WHAT inconsistencies?"

The real nuisance I've come across is checking for Color QuickDraw.
And then there's this business of different keyboards, with or without
control keys, or with the plus and minus keys on the numeric keypad
swapped (I check for the keyboard type, *not* which model of Mac it is).

And that's it. What am I missing?

By the way, have you considered getting a job with Microsoft...?