🚀 go-pugleaf

Arve Holt wrote:
> 
> Oslo, February, 1997. Crystal Structure Design AS is proud to announce
> that CrystalDesigner 6.0b2 for Macintosh is now available for downloading
> from <http://www.crystaldesigner.no> or from
> <ftp://ftp.crystaldesigner.no/>.
> 
> CrystalDesigner is a tool for building, studying and visualising all kinds
> of crystal structure on the Macintosh platform. CrystalDesigner is an
> ideal tool for both teaching and scientific studies. The software is
> intended to be used by students and teachers at colleges and universities,
> as well as in industrial research.
> 
> You can enter crystal structure data inside the program or import them
> from CIF files. Entering data inside a crystallography program has never
> been easier.  All 230 space groups from the "International Tables for
> Crystallography" and more than 700 different atomic, covalent and ionic
> radii are built into the program.

[snip of delicious capabilities]

Ah, guys, this is absolutely wonderful except Apple hardware is about 3%
of the installed PC hardware infrastructure.  Why do you program for a
dead market?

Apple blunted its tax bite by donating unsalable obsolete inventory to
schools for full price charitable write-off.  Nobody in his right mind
uses Apple hardware unless,

   1) You are into heavy graphics manipulation, such as creating Babylon
5.
   2) You are into heavy MIDI, with the groupies lined up outside,
   3) You are too stupid to maximize the power of your hardware for its
price.
   4) You have a fetish.

Good luck on getting back your investment.  The only things worse than
Mickeysoft products are labelled "IBM."

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