Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!mips!pacbell.com!pacbell!hoptoad!farcomp!murat From: murat@farcomp.UUCP (Murat Konar) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Low cost Mac's ? Message-ID: <231@farcomp.UUCP> Date: 3 Sep 90 04:28:19 GMT References: <25541.26DA84DD@stjhmc.fidonet.org> <1385@gold.GVG.TEK.COM> <1990Aug30.194221.29942@phri.nyu.edu> <11219@claris.com> <1990Aug31.021020.7897@phri.nyu.edu> <14588@yunexus.YorkU.CA> Reply-To: murat@farcomp.UUCP (Murat Konar) Organization: Farallon Computing Inc. Berkeley, CA Lines: 32 In article <14588@yunexus.YorkU.CA> philip@yunexus.yorku.ca (Phil McDunnough) writes: [stuff deleted] >program is not available. Mac users therefore have to settle for "canned >programs" which are fine as long as you have a fairly standard problem. By definition how ever, most users have "fairly standard problems." >The lack of a CLI and preemptive multitasking( and piping,etc...) are serious ^ Oh, no. Not again. >problems for the Mac. Unless you want to see the Mac relegated to the DTP, >spreadsheet and painting worlds( where budding intelligent mothers can show >us that what Picasso really needed was a Mac), you would be better off >encouraging Apple to get on with improving its OS, its A/UX so that the >wonderful hardware platform isn't wasted on MacWrite and MacPaint. I think it is generally agreed that the Mac hardware isn't all that special. The soul of the Mac is its user interface. Super computer Gods like yourself are amply supplied by other vendors (Digital, Sun, IBM, and others) with Real (TM) computers. What makes the Mac different from most other machines is its accessibility by those who are not and do not care to become experts in the arcane world of command line based interfaces. -- ____________________________________________________________________ Have a day. :^| Murat N. Konar murat@farcomp.UUCP -or- farcomp!murat@apple.com