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From: dorourke@polyslo.UUCP (David O'Rourke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Hey!  What about us, Mac+ users!
Message-ID: <3072@polyslo.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jun 88 06:31:21 GMT
Article-I.D.: polyslo.3072
References: <11388@apple.Apple.Com> <523@sering.cwi.nl> <11507@apple.Apple.Com>
Reply-To: dorourke@polyslo.UUCP (David O'Rourke)
Organization: Cal Poly State University -- San Luis Obispo
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In article <11507@apple.Apple.Com> dan@apple.UUCP (Dan Allen) writes:
>Yes, all of the programmer's at work DO have Mac IIs, and yes, we DO
>forget about the many that have Mac Pluses.  But after a recent trip
>that I made to the University of Michigan, I realized that VERY FEW
>people use Mac IIs, use MultiFinder, or have more than 1 MB of RAM.

  Thankyou for this comment.  I have a couple of friends that work at Apple
and they seem to take that attitude that everyone has as nice of a 
configuration as they do.  And it's frustrating!!!  I mean these are the
people defining the tools that I have to work with, and if they don't get
a chance to deal with "real world" too often then they loose touch, {the
thing that really bothers me is these people avoid opportunities to see
the real world by claiming "they're too busy"}.

  Anyways it's nice to see someone at apple realizing that not every one
has a Mac II, or is going to get one in near future.  Keep it up!!

  Misc. Trivia:  I used to work for a company that made a MS-Dos 80286 clone
{sorry but the pay was good!!}, it used to frustrate me that these people
never bothered to consider how many XT clones are still out there, and they
refused to believe that they wouldn't be upgraded, the 80286 is sooo much
better they used to say, how could anyone stay with an XT?  Well folks the
breaks of the matter are, there are a lot of XT's out there, they will all
be there for a while, and I feel the Mac Plus is the same way.

  Thankyou again, and keep up the good work.


-- 
David M. O'Rourke

Disclaimer: I don't represent the school.  All opinions are mine!