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From: ken@argus.UUCP (Kenneth Ng)
Newsgroups: net.micro.68k,net.micro.mac,net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: BYTE issue of September 86 focuses on the 68000
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Date: Sat, 13-Sep-86 21:19:06 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 13 21:19:06 1986
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In article <158@zen.BERKELEY.EDU>, c160-aw@zooey.Berkeley.EDU (Christian Wiedmann) writes:
> The whole point of the Mac is its User Interface. The strategy is to make
> all the hardships of using a computer disappear. Naturally, this also forces
> the programmer to do a lot more. This means that the most accepted way of
> writing programs will be to use a skeleton such as MacApp. Hopefully there
> will be enough programmers willing to put up with this hassle, because the
> market sure needs a computer that's easy to use.
> 
> 	  Christian Wiedmann
> 
> (Insert cute signature here)

But wouldn't good software be easier to write if the programmer didn't
have to do so much work?  One reason the old Altari 800 became so
popular was because the hardware chips made software development so
much easier.

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