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From: jas@ISI.EDU (Jeff Sullivan)
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Subject: Re: 32 bit roms
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Date: 23 May 91 17:33:58 GMT
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In-reply-to: ewright@convex.com's message of 22 May 91 17:25:23 GMT

In article <1991May22.172523.16015@convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:

>In article <17981@venera.isi.edu> jas@ISI.EDU (Jeff Sullivan) writes:
>
>>Does it say "Under the MacOS Known as the Finder"?  
>
>I should hope not.  The Macintosh operating system is *not* the Finder.
>The Finder is simply an application running under the operating system
>that allows you to launch other programs, move and copy files, etc.
>(Of course, Apple contributed to this confusion when it introduced
>Multifinder, which is an operating system.  Fortunately, the name
>"Multifinder" is no longer used for the multitasking operating
>system in System 7.)
>

Great.  Your nitpicking has resulted in pointing out that I used the
more familiar term.  would "under the operating system known as the
System" been more appropriate?  Probably.  Less understandable.
Probably.

Have you responded to the substance of the post?  No.

Does A/UX use the ROMs?  If so, then it's just as "native" as MacOS.
Maybe not the first, but it's an OS available from Apple that runs on
the Mac and delivers all of the promises.  That you can't run "Mac
applications" is a follish assertion.  What is a Mac application?  A
program running on the Mac, yes?  If you limit it to programs *only*
running on the mac, then Word, Excel, ATM, etc. are not Mac
applications.

Please respond to the spirit of the post, if you can, and not try to
nitpick because it takes little effort.

jas



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