Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!uunet!gsm001!gsm From: gsm@gsm001.uucp (Geoffrey S. Mendelson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Thought police, Apples and MS-DOS (was Re: give me solid facts: ... Message-ID: <1991Mar7.045150.25791@gsm001.uucp> Date: 7 Mar 91 04:51:50 GMT References: <4196@gmdzi.gmd.de> <1991Mar4.052143.19855@nntp-server.caltech.edu> <1991Mar6.161839.21090@nntp-server.caltech.edu> Organization: Geoffrey S. Mendelson -- Software Consulting Lines: 28 woody@nntp-server.caltech.edu (William Edward Woody) wrote praising Apples restrictivness on the Mac: > >Actually, I personally *love* Apple for doing this, >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! > I agree. Anyone who thinks Apple's too restrictive should try porting "standard" C code from one "standard" Unix to another. You will cry yourself to sleep at night :-) wishing AT&T was so restrictive. Microsoft Windows imposes similar restrictions, but it is (IMHO) a case of too little, too late. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Geoffrey S. Mendelson | Computer Software Consulting | Dr. | | (215) 242-8712 | IBM Mainframes, Unix, PCs, Macs | Who | | uunet!gsm001!gsm | | Fan too!| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | WANTED: PAL VIDEO TAPES (VHS or BETA) inquire within. | | Especialy "missing" Dr Who Episodes. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------