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From: herbie@polaris.UUCP (Herb Chong)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: Ban the binaries!
Message-ID: <294@polaris.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 20-Nov-85 21:40:06 EST
Article-I.D.: polaris.294
Posted: Wed Nov 20 21:40:06 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 23-Nov-85 08:37:29 EST
References: <1600@cbosgd.UUCP> <646@k.cs.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: herbie@polaris.UUCP (Herb Chong)
Organization: IBM TJ Watson RC
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Summary: 

In article <646@k.cs.cmu.edu> tim@k.cs.cmu.edu (Tim Maroney) writes:
>I don't think you folks understand programming on the Mac very well.  Most
>sources are unusable by most people.  Let's say I decoide to post TELNET and
>TFTP for the Mac in source code exclusively.  Great.  Now everyone who has a
>Lisa and Lisa Pascal can make it.  Wow.  That is, what, 5% or less of Mac
>users?  Let's say I'd written it in Megamax C.  Great.  Now what about the
>people who use incompatible C compilers?  I think you get the idea, so let's
>not go into Rascal, Object Pascal, MacApp, MacForth, and so on.

is it not possible to belong to a user's group and use someone's
FATMAC with the appropriate compiler to create the thing?  every MAC
owner does not live in a vacuum, do they?  just a suggestion.

Herb Chong...

I'm still user-friendly -- I don't byte, I nybble....

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