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In article <32D30348.4459@earthlink.net>, kinggrafx@earthlink.net wrote:


> Here's the problem I have...Getting Mr Gates and Mr Jobs to bury the
> hatchet (preferably in each other's heads) and make UNIFORM software
> application that will run on either machine and solve this problem and
> witless discussion once and for all..I mean Im tired of having things at
> either location (home or work) that I cant translate between the two!!!

> WE WANT UNIFORM FUNCTIONING APPLICATION THAT WILL RUN ON ALL MACHINES!!!
> 

(what does Steve Jobs have to do with that? He left Apple in 1985 or 1986.)

The problem is that it was 6 years before there was even a Windows system
even close to the Mac, so the only "uniform" applications that would be
possible would be DOS programs.

Even with Windows 3.1, there were many things missing. Don't underestimate
the Mac toolbox - it's currently 4MB of tightly-coded routines in ROM,
developed over 15 years, plus anything else loaded from disk. Some of this
still doesn't have Windows equivalents, though most now does.

And making the two versions the same is not necessarily a good thing for
everybody. Microsoft took out some very well-liked features to make Mac
Excel conform to Windows Excel (while admittedly adding lots of other
features). In other words, the Mac version had definitely been better,
until MS made them the same. Thus the Windows version took a step forward
and the Mac version took a step backward to meet somewhere in the middle.
Same was true for Word. (not to mention that MS did a lousy job of porting
them, and they run like molases and devour memory on Macs.)