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From: ja1w#@andrew.cmu.edu (Jesse Adelman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Anti-Apple Flames (was RE: Apple's Attitude)
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Date: Thu, 25-Jun-87 18:27:55 EDT
Article-I.D.: andrew.MS.V3.18.ja1w.80020d01.media.ibm032.306.1
Posted: Thu Jun 25 18:27:55 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 5-Jul-87 19:48:08 EDT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon University
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In article ,  rs4u+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Richard Siegel) writes

>I think it is unreasonable to expect programmers *not* to take
>advantage of the additional features that the 128K and 256K ROMs 
>provide. The new features provide faster operation, bug fixes,
>and additional routines  that make the task of writing
>a Mac application quicker and easi I'm sorry, but the 128K Macintosh
>and the 512K (old ROM) Macintosh are *obsolete*. 

Obsolete? Heck, the Macintosh II is obsolete (when you see a Cray)! I wonder
how many people (and institutions) still have "old" Macs? It seems that
people who work in the computer industy have passed on the disease to the
people who use the computers. That disease is called "Mustahava
Latestjunkamus." It forces people to go out and order the "latest" a)
hardware, b) software, c) remote control, and d) pizza - even though the old
machine WORKS for them, and they have no reason to upgrade/buy the latest
thing. If you don't need footnotes and psuedo-IBM compatibility, stick with
goode olde MacWrite. Don't need multiple drawing windows on the screen? Then
MacPaint will still be your friend. I, myself, have the "Mustahava
Latestjunkamus" disease, but I don't think that this should be forced onto
the general computing public.

	Jesse Adelman
	JA1W+@Andrew.CMU.EDU
	JA1W+@TE.CC.CMU.EDU
	{BitNet? New type of fishing gear?}