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Article #10784Re: Inside Macintosh: Will we ever see a revised, updated edition?
From: Nick Rothwell
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 1990 14:29
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 1990 14:29
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In article <16759@well.sf.ca.us>, dwt@well (dwt) writes:
>My prediction is that that the CD-ROM Drive is the most popular
>add-on purchase for a Serious Mac Developer in the next 12 months.
>
>So get real and get a CD-ROM Drive, or your only playing at
>this game!
But I WANT to just play at this game. I have a Mac at home, and I want
to write applications for it. I paid close on $2000 for a Mac+, HD,
THINK C and a couple of IM books. (and you don't want to know how much
hassle I had finding the IM books.) Are you telling me I should pay
as much again just to find out how to program my own computer?
Huge developers' fees are fine for commercial developers living
in California with easy access to developer support and so on.
Do Apple want to completely cut out the guy in Europe who bought a Mac
for home use, and who wants to program it?
I guess so. So much for the open software design, the Machine
For The Rest Of Us, the Power To Be Our Best, and so on.
>David W. Taylor
Nick.
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Nick Rothwell, Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!lfcs!nick From: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Inside Macintosh: Will we ever see a revised, updated edition? Message-ID: <2967@castle.ed.ac.uk> Date: 21 Mar 90 14:29:14 GMT References: <EZzz=jm00WB3QWy28g@andrew.cmu.edu> <16759@well.sf.ca.us> Reply-To: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) Organization: Jenny Agutter Appreciation Society of Edinburgh Lines: 29 In-reply-to: dwt@well.sf.ca.us (dwt)