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From: mdc@mcp.entity.com (Marty Connor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Hey!  What about us, Mac+ users!
Summary: Some Slogans for the ReSt Of Us...
Message-ID: <172@mcp.entity.com>
Date: 6 Jun 88 00:40:39 GMT
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...
(please take what follows with a grain of salt, or a sip of Coke)

After spending ALL my money on a Mac+, and then through some sleazoid
connection getting simms for a full load of memory, now I get to watch
as the Mac OS gets so big that it won't fit in a MEG and I have to
start deleting stuff off my 20 meg hard disk.  And people are talking
calmly about how this AMAZING DEBUGGER will ONLY take 512K!!  OOO
AHHH!!  I hope it writes code for us too (cause with no memory left,
somebody's got to!)

DaMn!!  I guess I won't be able to run that new ULTIMATE SCREENSAVER
now.  (y'know... would someone who mainly is trying to NOT LOOK AT THEIR
SCREEN please just sell me their keyboard and mouse?  Think of it as
KEYSAVER AND MOUSESAVER).

This overstuffed operating system and shell stuff ALWAYS happens, but
I usually see it quicker when people get hired to add features to
something that works (and is selling pretty well), and are getting
paid by the hour so they don't spend time trying to make it smaller.
Maybe next contract Apple should add: "And after adding these new
features the core operating system will still run fine on a 1 (2????)
meg Mac+.

  Then of course the BoYs in MaRKetTing don't usually know chit about
computers, except to say at some meeting in front of the right
managerial types: "Well, you know Jean Louis, those kids at SUN are
gonna be adding Feature X[11,12,13] to the SUN OS V007.0, can I go down
the hall and hassle your operating systems guy in to hanging a large
bag off the side of the MAC OS so we can announce this feature in
System 7.0?"

Who's to say?  Any you boys (or girls) at apple have any idea how we
can get the system software on a weight reduction plan?

Of course, barring that, perhaps the NEXT (inc.) thing to do is help
Apple keep it's priorities straight with a little MAD Magazine style
'yumah' (as we say down east)...  

Must Be time for some Bumper Stickers and Tee-Shirts!

  Macintosh II:  "It simply costs more!!"

  The Few, The Proud: "The people with enough memory to run MultiFinder."

		(or)  "The people with enough memory to run System 7.0"

     or how about:

  Macintosh: "The computer for a few of thousand more than I have!!"
  
Think about it, Apple...  And "Thanks for your support!"
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Marty Connor
Director of Innovation, The Entity
mdc@mcp.entity.com, ...{harvard|uunet}!mit-eddie!spt!mcp!mdc