Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!apple!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!nuug!ulrik!ikaros.uio.no!espen From: espen@ikaros.uio.no (Espen J. Vestre) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Low cost Mac's ? Message-ID: <1990Sep3.081259.10051@ulrik.uio.no> Date: 3 Sep 90 08:12:59 GMT Sender: news@ulrik.uio.no (USENET News System) Organization: Department of Mathematics, Univ. of Oslo Lines: 29 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> In article <14588@yunexus.YorkU.CA> philip@yunexus.yorku.ca (Phil McDunnough) writes: > The lack of a CLI and preemptive multitasking( and piping,etc...) are serious > 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. Lots of the Mac users I know of, use it for far more "heavy" applications than "DTP, spreadsheet and painting". The Mac is getting increasingly popular among graphics designers, for instance (who do far more than just "painting"). Speaking for myself, the Mac provides the best lisp environment I know of: Macintosh Allegro Common Lisp. Using that program, I am very happy _not_ to have a OS CLI. With MACL's file system interface I actually _have_ a CLI (namely Common Lisp), which I occasionaly use for i.e. file manipulations which the Finder cannot do for me. ----------------------------------------- Espen J. Vestre Department of Mathematics University of Oslo P.o. Box 1053 Blindern N-0316 OSLO 3 NORWAY espen@ikaros.uio.no -----------------------------------------