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From: gft_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu
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Subject: Re: Windows/Mac flame war fuel
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Date: 2 Jul 90 22:04:39 GMT
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In article <1990Jul2.191321.23971@portia.Stanford.EDU>, aaron@jessica.stanford.edu (Aaron Wallace) writes...
 
>In article <1990Jul1.125052.7037@kth.se> h+@nada.kth.se writes:
[...]
>>About incompatibilities: Programs breaking on new Apple
>>computers seem to be programs written by non-mac software
>>houses (i.e. ports from PC) and don't adhere to Inside
>>Macintosh. THese programs generally aren't very mac-ish
>>(IMHO) and aren't used by most mac users anyway.
> 
>I just broke MacPaint and Superpaint on a IIfx.  I don't recall the Windows
>versions of these.  Didn't MacPaint have problems on the Mac II a few years
>ago as well?  Or is Claris a non-Mac software house (I've heard they're going
>to make some Windows stuff...)



MacPaint was not written by Claris (although MacPaint II was).  MacPaint was
written by Bill Atkinson, who helped write the Mac ToolBox.  Bill is a software
genius, but he doesn't always follow Mac's rules.  This is why MacPaint broke:
it made assumptions about a one-bit screen.  SuperPaint did the same thing. 
That's not Apple's fault.

According to the New York Times the other day, Claris will become a fully-owned
subsidiary of Apple.  In addition to coming out with Mac software products as
they do now, they will also make add-ons for the Mac system, etc.  Although
they were considering doing Windows and Next stuff, it seems unlikely now,
since they'll be fully owned by Apple again.

Robert




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