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From: bellamy@covax.commerce.uq.oz.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: UNIX is yuck (was Re: Next intro...)
Message-ID: <1990Oct11.174236.55@covax.commerce.uq.oz.au>
Date: 11 Oct 90 07:42:35 GMT
References: <1990Oct9.003852.18788@oswego.Oswego.EDU> <1990Oct9.040256.12082@d.cs.okstate.edu> <1990Oct9.094857.25894@barsoom.nhh.no> <3959@3comvax.MCD.3Com.Com>
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In article <3959@3comvax.MCD.3Com.Com>, softa@vax.MCD.3Com.Com (Douglas Phillips) writes:
> tih@barsoom.nhh.no (Tom Ivar Helbekkmo) writes:
> 
> 
>>That may be so, but you're comparing apples (no pun intended) and oranges.
>>There's no equivalent of the on-line man pages on the Mac, excepting the
>>Inside Macintosh DA that's in the public domain. 
> 
> Wrong!  There is Spinside Macintosh which is free to all certified developers
> and 411 which comes on the new ETO disc and is GREAT.  Man pages suck in       
> comparision to 411.

Maybe, but how do they compare to nothing!

> 
>>After all, IM doesn't come free with the Mac, right?
> 
> No, and it shouldn't either, it should just be free for all developers.

Ah, but I thought the Mac was supposed to make us all developers.

This sounds like the same logic that has a developer's only version of HC2.0. 
Unless of course you are part of the inner circle of wizards and know the
magic words to activate the scripting spell :-)

BTW, if the user interface on the Mac is so good, why is the Help key
just another useless bit of plastic.

-- 
Bellamy        Email: bellamy@covax.commerce.uq.oz.au
Dept. Commerce, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, AUSTRALIA