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>the Mac wasn't that useful until Macs
>appeared with Lisa-level hardware: 512K and a hard drive).
 
Excuse me?
 
I bought a Mac a few weeks after their introduction (I was an undergrad at CMU,
which was an Apple Consortium school and so we got 'em early :) and could do
more with MacWrite and MacPaint in 10 minutes than I could accomplish in a
whole hour with EMACS/MINCE-plus-Scribe.
 
There WERE plusses to the fact that the original machine was a closed 128K
machine:  since resources were tight, early developers were forced to use the
toolbox whenever possible.  This set the important early precedent for the
Mac's later success:  developers played by the rules and the users came to
demand inter-app consistency.
 
Just imagine if, say, Microsoft had a relatively large application space to
play with.  Yikes! look at the Windows-like crud they're passing as Macintosh
apps now!  They practically reinvent the toolbox, not to mention the Human
Interface at every turn (if you don't believe me, try and see what percentage
of the time Word uses the Macintosh Window Manager vs. the times it rolls its
own)
 
Don't forget, Joe Average User isn't gonna wanna cope with something as baroque
(read: powerful?) as UNIX or NT.
 
Jeff