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From: gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Apple System 7.0
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Date: 16 May 89 15:53:00 GMT
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/* Written  8:40 am  May 13, 1989 by mackay@iisat.UUCP in p.cs.uiuc.edu:comp.sys.mac */
>Yeah, this always makes me laugh.  Imagine, if you will, the day when
>the Mac O/S has features like...
>
> [Many advanced O/S features]
> ..
> Naaah.  Apple could never build such an advanced system.  :-)  SIX YEARS
> AGO, PEOPLE!  SIX YEARS!  It's so hard to see the Mac O/S as anything but
> a pathetically emasculated Lisa O/S.  Aah well, someday, it will catch up.

You neglect to mention that Amiga is nowhere when it comes to a having
an *extendible* *standardized* graphics engine with 32-bit color and a
picture description language, and well-integrated networking facilities.

Don't get me wrong -- I'd like to see more amiga features in the
macintosh, esp. a more robust & self-repairing file system.  But let's
stop this whining about not having feature X when apple is clearly
investing a heavy amount of development in features Y,Z and succeeding in
bringing it to the marketplace.