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Article #43933Re: What do I want to see in the Apple of the 90's?
From: Laura Halliday
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1989 16:18
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1989 16:18
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In article <7614@sdcsvax.UCSD.Edu> rfellman@ucsd.edu (Ronald Fellman) writes: >In article <1630@intercon.com> amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker) writes: >>My "Old Boat Anchor" has: >> >> - A Resource Manager, permitting (among other things) international >> localization *without recompilation*, including all of the system >> software >> >> - Built-in facilities for handling non-roman writing systems and keyboards >> > >I can't see how most people would care about this! *I* certainly care. Not all of the world speaks English, you know. Even in the English speaking world, there are variations (do you say month/day/year or day/month/year?). I'll bet Macintosh gurus somewhere are developing Russian system software, if nobody hasn't already. Can the same be said for NeXT? I like NeXT, and may very well buy one next year. But Amanda has pointed out a serious flaw in the way NeXT does things... ...laura
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!ubc-cs!cheddar.cc.ubc.ca!halliday From: halliday@cheddar.cc.ubc.ca (Laura Halliday) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.next Subject: Re: What do I want to see in the Apple of the 90's? Message-ID: <5985@ubc-cs.UUCP> Date: 15 Dec 89 16:18:55 GMT References: <9986@zodiac.ADS.COM> <192@atncpc.UUCP> <1630@intercon.com> <7614@sdcsvax.UCSD.Edu> Sender: news@cs.ubc.ca Reply-To: halliday@cc.ubc.ca (Laura Halliday) Organization: Ellipsis Central... Lines: 24