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From: frain@cis.ksu.edu (Jerry Frain)
Subject: Re: Why I Would Like "True Multitasking"
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peirce@outpost.UUCP (Michael Peirce) writes:

>You forget that the Mac was not designed to be a *programmers* computer,
>rather it was designed to be a *users* computer.

Gee, I always thought that programmers *are* users.

>On the original
>Mac you couldn't even program on it - you had to compile your code
>on a Lisa, then bring it over.

Boy that makes me feel so much better.  Maybe we need to add a
card reader device driver to MacOS to make programming even more
fun.

>The trade off is that to make easy
>to use programs, it's often somewhat of a pain to program.

It doesn't have to be that way.  However, that is the way computer
evolution tends to go -- learn how to do it with much sweat and
tears and blood, then make an easier way to do it with the benefit
of hindsight.

  --Jerry Frain, frain@cis.ksu.edu