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From: ems@apple.UUCP (Mike Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Big Mac Systems (was Word 3.0 and new Finder)
Message-ID: <899@apple.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 1-Jun-87 19:16:01 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun  1 19:16:01 1987
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In article <839@goanna.oz>, jlc@goanna.oz (J.L Cybulski) writes:
> Recently we had a number of articles describing new versions of
> Word, Finder and System (should we include Juggler?).
> 
...
> Improvements to Apple and Microsoft software usually lead to
> the inevitable expansion of their functionality, this however
> has a strange mushrooming effect - growing software size.
...
> Now, I ask a question:
> 
> 	Couldn't it be easier for the user (not the programmer though)
> 	to construct configurable software?

I vote for this solution!  I am one of those folks who use a Mac+ with a 
big ram disk.  This gives me, effectively, a 512k mac.  This chokes on
the GIGANTIC {system, finder, applications} now coming out.  Argggg.

I suspect that if things had been designed from the start with modularity
in mind that this could be done.  After all, device drivers are this way.
(imagewriter, laserwriter, etc.).  Given that the pot has already been
stirred, though, I suspect that it would be difficult to unmix things ...

(BTW, I am just a UNIX(tm) person here.  I have no connection with the 
 making of Mac's SW or HW.  These are the statements of a 'customer' rather
 than an 'apple employee'.)
-- 

E. Michael Smith  ...!sun!apple!ems

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