Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site eagle.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!mhuxm!sftig!sfmag!eagle!adrian From: adrian@eagle.UUCP (A.Freed) Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.apple,net.flame Subject: Re: Apple Shafts America; or, The Computer For the Rich of Us Message-ID: <1198@eagle.UUCP> Date: Mon, 24-Sep-84 01:05:52 EDT Article-I.D.: eagle.1198 Posted: Mon Sep 24 01:05:52 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Sep-84 05:17:16 EDT References: <755@ihuxk.UUCP> <194@ssc-bee.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Summit, NJ Lines: 23 I suspect the marketing style of Apple was a result of the success of a boring machine, the IBM PC. At least Apple did not produce another PC compatible. The macintosh is a good bit-mapped graphics show-piece. It is not easy to get that much code working that reliably. I think it is a mistake to buy a nice machine and a bunch of promises. If you want a machine to help you get some work done, there are probably other people already doing similar work with an old machine with fulfilled promises. The exciting thing about the Macintosh is that people are seriously thinking how to build systems with good user interfaces and which are well integrated as well as modular. I think we will see alot of nice bit-mapped graphics machines around in the next few years. What will be the standard bit-mapped operating system? Who will define it? A big corperation or someone working in their garage? How can we write portable bit-mapped software? In the meantime, the Mac. is not a bad terminal to my favourite operating system and it is food for thought. Can anyone figure out how their Icons can be non-rectangular and how to do a non XOR mouse? A good exercise in bit-map arithmetic. The above views are my own.