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From: jkain@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Jeff Kain)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: give me solid facts: why is the mac better than MeSsy DOS/WINDOWS
Message-ID: <1991Feb27.022853.11033@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
Date: 27 Feb 91 02:28:53 GMT
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CXT105@psuvm.psu.edu (Christopher Tate) writes:

>It doesn't matter whether I was using MacPaint, Illustrator, SuperPaint,
>FreeHand, Canvas, MacDraw, Claris CAD, or whatever to draw that picture;
>I can still incorporate it into my word processor without worrying about
>where it came from.  If I want to include a graph, I can just whip one
>up using Cricket Graph, or KaleidaGraph, or Delta Graph, or whatever, and
>do the same thing.

HA!  That's a good one... 

While cut and paste is seamless for most formats of data, standards
have a long way to go before we don't have to worry about a chunk of data's
internal representation.  Differences between PICT, TIFF, EPS, etc.
as well as text formats such as RTF can cause big headaches when you
try to exploit the clipboard metaphor to its fullest and most
seamless.

There was an interesting article in last week's MacWeek about new
initiatives coming from Apple to improve the state of standards on the
Macintosh platform, as well as for Mac->PC data sharing.

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