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From: alex@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us (Alex Pournelle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re^2: Inside Macintosh: Will we ever see a revised, updated edition?
Message-ID: <1990Mar28.094309.717@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us>
Date: 28 Mar 90 09:43:09 GMT
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>You guys [at DTS] must have a good number of people who do nothing more than
>full time hand-holding for the programming wizards at Microsoft;
>imagine where we could be if DTS wasn't there to patiently explain why
>you shouldn't specifically check for the 68881, or for the presence of
>a LaserWriter before enabling font scaling.

Or jumping directly into the ROMs once they "know" what kind of computer
they're on.  Ask Dave Small about programming around MicroSofty code &
doing 7 impossible things in software to make Word work on an Atari
ST....

...On the other hand, if you can find one, the STacy makes a wonderful,
lighter, slimmer, more capable Mac Portable than the real 'un.  Heh.


	Alex