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From: berger@iboga (Mike Berger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: IBM been goowy for along tyme
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Date: 9 Feb 91 21:29:56 GMT
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gsm@gsm001.uucp (Geoffrey S. Mendelson) writes:
>My point?  Good GUI's, good software, etc, are NOT HARDWARE DEPENDENT.
>The Mac's system makes it easier to code one, as most of it comes in rom.
*----
I agree with some of the points you've made in your posting, but I
couldn't let this pass.  What's the difference whether your GUI support
library is in ROM or RAM?  In fact, most of the complaints I hear about
programming the Mac involve the complexity of the ROM calls.  Fortunately,
the better compilers isolate the programmer from that... just like in the
PC family.
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	Mike Berger
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