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From: ac08@vaxb.acs.unt.edu
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Subject: Re: Macintosh OS (was: 68000 and Workstations.)
Message-ID: <26637.266e6ed4@vaxb.acs.unt.edu>
Date: 7 Jun 90 15:12:20 GMT
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In article <:LZ3SIE@xds13.ferranti.com>, peter@ficc.ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:
>> 	I agree.  Then why only Apple include GUI as standard interface still?
> 
> I must have imagined these machines.
> 	Commodore Amiga.
> 	Atari ST.
> 	NeXT.
> 	Xerox Star/8650.
> 
> The last one is interesting, since it's the machine the Mac is a very limited
> copy of. I first played with one in 1982, at the NCC. It's still available,
> 8 years later.

The Mac is a *limited* copy of the Star?

Peter- you're dreaming again... :)

I saw a Star a week or two ago at the Xerox showroom.

It's slow, the interface is *very* primitive, and there wasn't much else
to say about it... even the Xerox people weren't proud of it.



> 
>> For others, you have to pay for GUI.  For Macs, you have to pay for CLI.
> 

There's some nice little DA and/or INIT products out there that let you
do CLI on the Mac for free (or cheap shareware), but almost nobody uses them.

Programmers like CLI, but nobody else does... :)

> And on the Amiga, and the NeXT, you get both.

And once Amiga finishes polishing theirs, it'll be a helluva system.
And once the Next sells more than 10,000 of them, someone might write
some programs to run on them... :)


> -- 
>  Peter da Silva


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