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Dave Glue (daveacg@interlog.com) wrote:
: english@primenet.com (Lawson English) wrote:


: >: Agreed.  It is such poor quality, that it can only be attributed to
: >: Apple.

: >Oho. Then you are saying that YOU, all by your lonesome, could implement 
: >such a thing in your spare time?

: What a bizarre argument.  I have to be able to program a multitasking
: OS to not recognize a poor one?

So, shoehorn in multitasking on top of a single-tasking OS without 
breaking previous applications in the process and without requiring a 
complete rewrite of the entire ToolBox and OS while you are at it.




: Then never critique a film you didn't like, if you aren't planning on
: making one.

: Never critisize a McDonalds hamburger, if you're not prepared to kill
: a cow and make one yourself.

: Don't make disparaging comments about a car's handling, unless you're
: prepared to jump on the assembly line and build one yourself.

: Here's the kicker- you'll blast Windows 95, but are you planning to
: program a new OS for the PC's? No.

I don't believe that I have ever "blasted" Windows 95. When asked, I say 
that I understand that it is quite good -better than the Mac's OS and 
interface in some ways.


: The Macs multitasking is "poor" because virtually every other OS that
: reports to mulitask does it far better.


The Mac's multitasking is poor because it was a quick and dirty fix to an 
underlying design flaw that will require a rewrite of virtually all 
routines in the Mac toolbox, graphics API and OS to correct.

The Mac's multitasking is excellent because despite being such a kludge, 
it works with all Macs built since 1985, and broke almost no 
existing programs.

As I said, if Apple does such poor work that you can criticize them for 
everything that they've ever done, let's see you do better, given the 
constraints that the folks that did Multifinder had.

: >: DOS is of such poor quality.  You don't see other OS's as bare-bones
: >: as that.  I guess Microsoft is innovative then.

: >Actually, DOS wasn't even MS's originally...

: It wasn't a serious argument,  Lawson.

I won't say it. I won't say it. I won't say it. I won't say it....



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