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Re: Copland merely shifts the burden to the programmer

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From: William Taylor
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 06:17
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In article <31447799.3FAB@mts.se> Martin Nisshagen, martin@mts.se writes:
>I might add that I'm no fan of Win95 at all (I prefer to use NT, OS/2 
>and different flavors of Unix), but it's still way better than MacOS
>(wich I sometimes forced to use and who a lot of those times manges to
>lock up completley).
>

Depends on what you do. I find the built in capabilities of the Mac
clarly superior to its Windows counterparts (QuickDraw 3d, QuickTime,
QuickTimeVR, even Mac games). The cool features make up for the stability
differences. Either way, I regularly crash '95, and most of the time run
NT or Linux on my PC. Alas, I still have to boot '95 for most of my games.

But, I have been using the Mac to access the internet, play with 3D,
interact with VAX and unix networks long before the PC became adept at
the tasks. The Mac still does things that win95 and NT only dream about.
Part of this is due to a different mindset between the two sources of the
systems, and part of it is due to more thoughtful design.

It would be great to have a system that combined all of the best features
of every platform: the solid SMP foundations of NT, the cool interface
design of the MacOS, and the ease of use Apple hardware. But I dream<g>.

WT
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