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From: sdh@rabbit.UUCP (S. Hawley)
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Subject: Re: MACINTOSH opinion and request
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Date: Fri, 27-Jan-84 03:22:03 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 27 03:22:03 1984
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What one should take into consideration about the macintosh before attcking
it from the hacker aspect, is that Apple is not trying to put out machines
for hobbyists anymore. The macintosh is supposed to be the first generation
of very easy to use, friendly machines. This does two things. It spreads the
use of the computer to a wider audience. That's the positive part. The bad
part is that the gap between a user and a programmer is ever widening. I
think the end result may well be, to a large extent, two groups of people:
People who bothered to learn programming before user friendly machines (and
will probably be money makers) and people who are whizzes at using what is
created for them (these people will probably be managers). Its a little
pessimistic, sure, but it seems that Apple is telling less and less about
its machines.
  I wanted to work with graphics on someone elses apple ///, but the manuals
said close to nothing about how the screen is memory mapped. Its fine for
the businessperson, but not programmers.

"Life.. don't talk to me about life" -Marvin
Steve Hawley