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From: minich@d.cs.okstate.edu (Robert Minich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Can't resize windows? (was Re: Windows 3.0 & the Mac)
Message-ID: <1990Jul18.190550.28538@d.cs.okstate.edu>
Date: 18 Jul 90 19:05:50 GMT
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by ke2y@vax5.cit.cornell.edu:
|  Why should Apple waste its resources in reinventing the wheel when others
|have put a lot of their own energy into this?
|  You'll probably argue that some of these things should have been features
|to begin with.  Perhaps that's true, but I can't knock Apple too bad - it's
|impossible to throw every whiz-bang feature into a new product; someone's
|bound to think of something that's missing.

  Although this came out of a discussion (?) of iconizing windows, a
feature I don't see as necessary, the above comment about reinventing
the wheel is indeed important. IMHO, nifty little INIT's, cdev's, hacks
etc. are great, but they often cause difficult to find problems and bad
interactions. System software, on the other hand, is a constant that
people can all work with and around. Would we have 32bit QD (which
others had implemented before Apple) if Apple didn't reinvent the wheel?
How about putting DA's into a folder rather than installing them in the
sys file? (Can do it with Suitcase/Juggler.) How about virtual memory?
Sure some of these are sys 7, but the point is still valid. How about
TrueType? (Well, ATM is first to market, but would there be ATM without
TrueType?)
  I'd rather have important things done well by Apple rather then
relying on third parties, esp. shareware, which may not be as stable and
supported. Some cry about creeping features, but that's BS. Let's talk
about rasing the standards that applications can depend on.
-- 
| _    /| | Robert Minich             |Q: Why is the food so lousy, and 
| \'o.O'  | Oklahoma State University |the service so bad? Time traveler:
| =(___)= | minich@d.cs.okstate.edu   |A:The waiters know in advance what 
|    U    | - Bill sez "Ackphtth"     |kind of tip they'll be getting.