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From: al@escom.com (Al Donaldson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: MacMINIX
Message-ID: <559@escom.com>
Date: 7 Jun 90 20:29:45 GMT
References: <8582@goofy.Apple.COM>
Organization: ESCOM Corp., Oakton, VA
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In article <8582@goofy.Apple.COM>, dbrown@apple.com (David Brown) writes:
> think about how much worse it could be if Apple documented the hardware 
> and developers wrote to those specs.  

Yeah..

Think how much easier it would be if no one cared how the hardware worked
and people just bought LOTS and LOTS of the next generation of boxes,
and spent all day drawing pretty pictures and talking to other Macs and
no one competed with Apple and ...

I guess I had always assumed that the upcoming Mac-MINIX was going to
control the machine rather than being controlled by "finder" or whatever.
Given that, I'm a little surprised that Andy (a leading proponent of
open systems) seems to be giving this his blessing.  

Al

OBJ #1 -- "Who are those guys?"
          "Well, Furdley is the technical guy and Snerdley is just
          a beancounter."
            - from a recent Apple ad, names changed because I can't
          remember them, but you get the drift..)

OBJ #2 -- "What's the difference between a Mac and an Etch'a'Sketch?"
          "You don't have to shake the Mac."
            - definitely NOT from an Apple ad.