Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!ists!yunexus!gall From: gall@yunexus.UUCP (Norm Gall) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: MacMINIX Message-ID: <11506@yunexus.UUCP> Date: 5 Jun 90 12:18:15 GMT References: <1458@lectroid.sw.stratus.com> <6785@star.cs.vu.nl> <25120@usc.edu> Reply-To: gall@nexus.yorku.ca Organization: York University Department of Philosophy Toronto, Canada Lines: 25 kjh@pollux.usc.edu (Kenneth J. Hendrickson) writes: | In article <6785@star.cs.vu.nl> ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes: | % Because IBM, Atari, and Commodore are happy to tell you how the machine | % works. Apple's attitude is that you are a user and you can be trusted to | % point with the mouse. How the disk controller, clock, video, | % keyboard and DMA chips work is none of your bloody business. | % Kind of hard to write a native OS for a secret machine. | /* whoosh */ | This is good reason to avoid Apple products. | /* fwump */ Well, its only a good reason if what you want is a hacker type machine... The Mac was designed to be an appliance that was simple to set up and operate. It wasn't designed to be a sponge that soaked up whatever came down the pike... The right tool for the right job........... nrg -- "It is not the task of philosophy to affirm or deny the existence of things, but rather to clarify what assertions or denials of existence signify, if anything." -- PMS Hacker