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From: mce@tc.fluke.COM (Brian McElhinney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: programming environments (was: multitasking)
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Date: 4 Jan 89 01:21:14 GMT
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In article <749@lts.UUCP> amanda@lts.UUCP (Amanda Walker) writes:
> A certain number of people seem to have the perception that if the Mac OS
> would just become UNIX, that it would suddenly become simple to program,
> take over the market, and probably cure world hunger.  They then say that
> it's all Apple's fault that the Mac OS is not UNIX, and that Apple better
> wise up and fix this glaring deficiency.

Well said, but, hey, that's not why I complain about MacOS.  I imagine in my
fevered vision that I am not alone.

	I want the Macintosh operating system to be as advanced as the user
	interface, or at least a closer match.

Instead we have an OS *designed* to run in < 128K RAM and on a single floppy
disk, and then horn shoed, stretched, and prodded for four years.  It is a
testimony to the talent of Apple's employees that the present incarnation
works as well as it does.  But is it any wonder people complain?
 
 
Brian McElhinney
mce@tc.fluke.com