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From: peter@Sugar.NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: De-macification of the Amiga (Re: The Amiga's Future)
Message-ID: <1991Jun24.100035.29314@Sugar.NeoSoft.com>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX
References: <1991Jun23.201625.18225@news.iastate.edu> <1991Jun23.204705.23687@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <51086@ut-emx.uucp>
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1991 10:00:35 GMT

In article <51086@ut-emx.uucp> awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels) writes:
> Geez, Apple can't do anything right.

You got that right.

> If they don't use a feature, they're "old technology"

No, they're "old technology" because they screwed up so badly on the original
design. It's got nothing to do with "features". Multitasking isn't a "feature",
it's a basic capability that should be the core of *any* system since about
1965.

> and if they do, they "stole it."

People talk about Apple stealing stuff because of what their lawyers do, not
what their programmers do.

> Apple DOES manage to do some smart things with all that research money.

Probably so. Too bad they're so big on NIH and have such a crummy platform
to apply that research to.
-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'   <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
                   'U`    "Have you hugged your wolf today?"
