Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mit-eddie!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uwm.edu!linac!midway!zaphod!francis From: francis@uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: give me solid facts: why is the mac better than MeSsy DOS/WINDOWS Message-ID: Date: 6 Mar 91 09:03:24 GMT References: <4176@gmdzi.gmd.de> <29159@cs.yale.edu> <4196@gmdzi.gmd.de> <1991Mar4.052143.19855@nntp-server.caltech.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: Mathematics Department, University of Chicago Lines: 20 In-Reply-To: woody@nntp-server.caltech.edu's message of 4 Mar 91 05:21:43 GMT In article <1991Mar4.052143.19855@nntp-server.caltech.edu> woody@nntp-server.caltech.edu (William Edward Woody) writes: In the Apple Macintosh community there are rules, guides, comments about rules, Thought Police (remember them? also known as the Macintosh Evangelists), and everyone follows them or faces the threat of having their software possibly break in the future. Macintosh programmers hate Apple for this; you almost feel like you are being No we don't. (At least *I* don't. :-) I LOVE this. I get a big kick out of being able to take any program I write and put it into any Mac. And I know that it's largely because Apple's so careful. -- /=============================================================================\ | Francis Stracke | My opinions are my own. I don't steal them.| | Department of Mathematics |=============================================| | University of Chicago | Until you stalk and overrun, | | francis@zaphod.uchicago.edu | you can't devour anyone. -- Hobbes | \=============================================================================/