Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!bader+ From: bader+@andrew.cmu.edu (Miles Bader) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Macintosh OS Message-ID: Date: 13 Jun 90 23:07:54 GMT References: <1943@key.COM> <1990Jun7.212351.20426@calgary.uucp> <6570@scolex.sco.COM> <8767@odin.corp.sgi.com> <26765.26701754@vaxb.acs.unt.edu> <4242@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <2922@demo.COM> <1990Jun12.163321.676@agate. Organization: Information Technology Center, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 17 In-Reply-To: <5450@rtech.Ingres.COM> > >computer is an expensive gadget and must be shared. Macintosh, on the other > >hand is a child of personal computer: 100% CPU time is yours (or your > >sessions, to be more exact). You are comparing Apple to Orange. > > While you understand computer, you don't understand Macintosh. > >Control Key is a no-no concept for Macintosh: That makes programmer's works > >hard because you have to program a bullet-proof software. But it obviously > >benefitted users. The best thing Macintosh did was telling us computers are > >for users, not for programmer who program for programmer's sake. Look, it won't be a real OS *OR* a real computer until you people start putting articles in front of its name. Retching on my keyboard, -Miles