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Re: Shareware MAC

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From: Stdnt 05
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 1989 20:16
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Although Apple's DOS is really (IMHO) messed up, you have to hand it
to them for doing a really, really nice job with their graphics and
user interface routines.  Anyone who suggests that creating an Apple
clone would be like creating an IBM clone, do-able by a small group of
hackers in their spare time, probably hasn't programmed a Mac.  Once
you program a Mac, you can really appreciate the time put into that
part of their OS when you realize that maintaining windows on the
screen in virtually EFFORTLESS.  I find myself quite impressed by many
aspects of the toolbox, and I realize why the original low-powered
Macs were awkward to use and am surprised why it took them so long to
implement their OS on a better machine, the Mac II.

If I were writing a clone of the MAC OS, I wouldn't know where to
begin.

Eric Ruck
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