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> I said:
>
>   i think you miss the point: its the little fact that apple wishes
>   "everyone else who designs a GUI to go to just as much trouble as
>   they did" that is so bad for the computer industry.
>
In article <1991Nov1.232902.9471@visix.com> amanda@visix.com (Amanda Walker) disagreed:
>I disagree.  The Macintosh user interface is pretty bare-bones, especially
>from a programming standpoint, just as the Macintosh Finder is a bare-bones
>desktop (although System 7 is a noticeable improvement).  Having to "go to
>the trouble" of innovating is *good* for the industry.
>
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hmmmm i'm not so sure that we have a real disagreement here, just a 
misunderstanding... innovation is of course good: that is what we
like to encourage. but on the other hand, what i was saying is that
we want people to originate *new* things, not spend their time 
innovating things that have already been done... (is this a contradiction
in terms? :)) 

for example (i may be mistaken on this one), i believe that ibm invented
the idea of virtual memory (please no flames... just correct me if i'm
wrong and refer me to alt.folklore.computers... :)) now would
it be a Good Thing for everybody and their brother to have to invent 
a new way of solving this problem when a good one exists?  i would say
no. that it is better for one to work on more efficent swamping or on
paging then to have to originate a whole new idea: this is the way,
IMHO, that lasting beauty (in the computer sense of course :)) is 
created: a single hacker may produce a startlingly beautiful idea
or algorithm but the perfection of an entire paradigm of computing
is created by the work of many, all trying to outdo, and go 
beyond the work of his or her compatriots.

jonathan.
 

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