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From: jcav@quads.uchicago.edu (john  cavallino)
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Subject: Re: About the Finder... (was Re: System 7.0 screwyness/Neat Finder feature)
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Date: 28 May 91 22:33:21 GMT
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In article <270792.2841D1B1@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> Adam.Frix@p18.f20.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Frix) writes:
>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.

My, my, my.  Didn't WE get up on the wrong side of the bed this decade.

As humorless and appallingly grim and serious as you appear to be, it is a
mystery to me how you have the strength to face life in this horrible world
of ours where evil irresponsible software engineers have the gall to waste
_your_ precious RAM with trivial goodies without _any_ serious redeeming
business purpose.

It seems to me that it is a sign of creativity and corporate mental health
that Apple's engineers feel free to make jokes of this sort.  You speak of 3K
here and there eventually eating up all your RAM.  Do you _really_ think the
Apple engineers are stupid enough to let jokes adversely affect the power and
performance of their work?  Anyway, I suspect that most of the space occupied
is on disk, not in memory.

Lighten up a little, OK?   We're supposed to be having fun here.


            "Life is much too important to be taken seriously."

                 (I don't know who said it first)


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