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From: peirce@outpost.UUCP (Michael Peirce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Time for Apple to move on from Mac (I disagree)
Message-ID: <0B010004.tr5b1m@outpost.UUCP>
Date: 6 Feb 91 04:23:21 GMT
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In article <143454.27AE5944@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG>, Adam.Frix@p2.f200.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Frix) writes:
> 
> I have to agree here.  It's time for Apple to stop fixing things up to run on
> 68000 Pluses and Classics, and start building a new set of machines, including
> a brand new OS, from scratch.

Right.  Just dump on all those people who have 68000 class Macintoshes.

Remember, their are lots more 68000 based machines out there than
Mac II class machines.  The Classic is selling very well and so this
situation isn't going to change any time soon.

I think the Mac is much easier to program now than it was years ago
even though there is more in the toolbox now.  Things like MacApp,
Jasik's debugger, and the THINK environments make life much easier than 
it was in the days of Lisa Pascal!  I remember the compiling in Magamax C 
on a "Fat Mac" (512K!) and it would start consuming video RAM when it got 
low.  When that screen filled up with garbage your code had grown too big.

Programming the Mac these days is do much easier.

Please Apple don't leave all those 68000 users in the dust just to
shut up those few souls with Unix envy (Unix? ick, hack, phuhy!)

-- michael

(Sorry, but I just get so tired of hearing about how I should switch
to Amiga/Next/whatever...)


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