Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uupsi!sugar!peter From: peter@Sugar.NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: De-macification of the Amiga (Re: The Amiga's Future) Message-ID: <1991Jun24.100035.29314@Sugar.NeoSoft.com> Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX References: <1991Jun23.201625.18225@news.iastate.edu> <1991Jun23.204705.23687@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <51086@ut-emx.uucp> Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1991 10:00:35 GMT In article <51086@ut-emx.uucp> awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels) writes: > Geez, Apple can't do anything right. You got that right. > If they don't use a feature, they're "old technology" No, they're "old technology" because they screwed up so badly on the original design. It's got nothing to do with "features". Multitasking isn't a "feature", it's a basic capability that should be the core of *any* system since about 1965. > and if they do, they "stole it." People talk about Apple stealing stuff because of what their lawyers do, not what their programmers do. > Apple DOES manage to do some smart things with all that research money. Probably so. Too bad they're so big on NIH and have such a crummy platform to apply that research to. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' . 'U` "Have you hugged your wolf today?"