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Article #995Re: Apple? (subject change)
From: Lawson English
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1995 16:25
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1995 16:25
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Xcott Craver (z911588@cs.niu.edu) wrote:
[snipt]
: So I take it back - you can make a better car than a Pinto, if you have
: most of the parts made for you. Same with an OS (NOT ANOTHER OS-CAR
: ANALOGY!!!! AAAAAAIAAAARGGH!!!!). Just the same, it is ridiculous to
: suggest that a product is cool because one person couldn't do better.
For what it's worth, my recollection is that one person DID do Multifinder.
The point being that if you really wanted to make multi-tasking on the
Mac better than Mulifinder, you would need to make the entire Toolbox,
GUI and OS re-entrant, which is a major multi-person, multi-year project.
Coincidentally, that project is called "Gershwin" and is taking several
years to do.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!news.primenet.com!english From: english@primenet.com (Lawson English) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel Subject: Re: Apple? (subject change) Date: 14 Aug 1995 16:25:49 GMT Organization: Primenet (602)395-1010 Message-ID: <40nted$dd6@nnrp1.primenet.com> References: <3uq1b8$hm2@caesar.ultra.net> <3vcoou$a2o@park.uvsc.edu> <DCECy2.v0@tracor.com> <3vcj2i$a44@krypton.hpc.sdsmt.edu> <3vei1a$nlq@srvr1.engin.umich.edu> <3vet1o$lu1@park.uvsc.edu> <ckt-3007951847400001@ckt.vip.best.com> <3vkmbd$b4@park.uvsc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: usr4.primenet.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]