Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!jarthur!nntp-server.caltech.edu!woody From: woody@nntp-server.caltech.edu (William Edward Woody) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Thought police, Apples and MS-DOS (was Re: give me solid facts: ... Message-ID: <1991Mar6.161839.21090@nntp-server.caltech.edu> Date: 6 Mar 91 16:18:39 GMT References: <4196@gmdzi.gmd.de> <1991Mar4.052143.19855@nntp-server.caltech.edu> Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena Lines: 35 In article francis@uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke) writes: >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. Actually, I personally *love* Apple for doing this, but I remember the grumbles of the old days (before HFS, before 128K ROMs), when programmers (mostly) still had not figured out the Macintosh. Most of the people I knew used to bitch about how hard it was to program the Mac, and how unsure they were to get thier programs up and running ("God, I just tuned my program to work on a 512K Mac, and it dies when I put it on a Mac Plus with 4 megs RAM. I hate Apple...") About that time I wrote my first utility, back in 1985. I still have that utility on my Mac II, and I have given it to people who use Mac IIfx's and Mac IIci's; I wrote it on my Mac 512K before there even was an HFS file system! Thank you, Apple. -- Bill -- William Edward Woody | Disclamer: USNAIL P.O.Box 50986; Pasadena, CA 91115 | EMAIL woody@tybalt.caltech.edu | The useful stuff in this message ICBM 34 08' 44''N x 118 08' 41''W | was only line noise.