Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!munnari.oz.au!metro!extro!norton From: norton@extro.ucc.su.oz.au (Norton Chia) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: A/UX questions (QuickMail, Tops, etc) Message-ID: Date: 19 Feb 91 11:54:02 GMT References: <18009@slice.ooc.uva.nl>, <1991Feb15.192334.9737@csun.edu> Sender: news@metro.ucc.su.OZ.AU Organization: Sydney University Computing Service, Sydney, NSW, Australia Lines: 24 Nntp-Posting-Host: extro.ucc.su.oz.au jo0e+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jared M. Oberhaus) writes: >I don't see why Microsoft Mail or QuickMail shouldn't just run under >A/UX as is. All applications should have been made 32-bit clean years >ago after the Mac II came out. The problem is, like Mike said, is that >some companies like Microsoft just don't follow the rules. >I love all of Microsoft's products. They are all terrific minus the fact >that they don't follow Apple programming guidelines. I've heard stories >about Apple having to change System software to get Excel or Word to >work correctly! >I vote that Microsoft and all software companies should follow the >rules. The toolbox is infinitely flexible, but upward compatibility >won't be if the rules are broken. I understand there have been debate about merits on either side of the fence. All I wnat to say is, do software companies include Apple? Because no one told them about it when they wrote HyperCard (Human Interface Guidelines) or A/UX 2.0, where it assumed the presence of an FPU on all '030 machines. :) -- **** My employers ignore me, I'm on my own when I speak out in public :^( **** Norton Chia || My address is norton@extro.ucc.su.oz.au Micro Support || "When are they going to put in built-in spell-chequers" *******************************************************************************