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From: Adam.Frix@p18.f20.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Frix)
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Subject: About the Finder... (was Re: System 7.0 screwyness/Neat Finder feature)
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Date: 26 May 91 06:01:02 GMT
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jnixon@spam.ua.oz (John Nixon) writes:

JN>  Hold down the Command key (or Cloverleaf or Propellor, or whatever 
JN> *you* like to call it) as well, and you get a cute little smiley 
JN> cursor with it's tongue sticking out. Until you press the mouse 
JN> button that is! 
JN>  I'm beginning to wonder how much time Apple engineers spend 
JN> exercising their senses of humour by implementing little "features" 
JN> such as these. Not that I mind at all ... 

I'm not so sure I agree.  If every engineer at Apple decided he had a neat little hack like that to stick in, and it only took 3K extra to implement, I have a feeling that the Finder alone would exceed the RAM limits of my Plus.

C'mon, Apple, stop acting like silly little boys.  I don't need that extra "cute" code sitting around, taking up space on my HD or in my System heap.  Every little bit counts.  (Did anyone currently at Apple ever read Steven Levy's _Hackers?_  Probably not.)  I would appreciate as lean an operating system as possible, while still providing all the benefits you've decided to provide.  Some of us are still using (and some are still _buying_) Macs with a 4 meg limit on RAM.  Every byte counts, and if I could 




save even 15K by excluding the cute cmd-opt-shift-tab-space bar-clear "hey, look at my name up in lights" features, I'm for it.  I personally don't give a diddly-squat about the Lisa development team.  I sure as hell don't want them taking up even a few bytes of precious space in my limited system.

Grow up, Apple.  Realize your responsibilities to your users in this respect, if not others.

(BTW, I hope this settles any question of who's a "butt-kissing apologist for Apple" around here.  They get their lumps from me when I deem it necessary.)

--Adam--
 
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