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From: earleh@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Earle R. Horton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Hey!  What about us, Mac+ users!
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Date: 2 Jun 88 18:08:17 GMT
References: <11388@apple.Apple.Com> <523@sering.cwi.nl>
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In article <523@sering.cwi.nl> guido@cwi.nl (Guido van Rossum) writes:
>I can see two reasons for this attitude at Apple:
>
>	1) (malicious) They want to sell more Mac IIs.  What would be
>	   more appropriate than to gradually make the software to big
>	   or too slow for the smaller models...
>	
>	2) (naive) All programmers at Apple have Mac IIs on their desks
>	   and have forgotten about all those users who can't afford an
>	   upgrade on a one-year old machine.
>
>PS: don't tell me that using MultiFinder on a Mac+ is doable.  It isn't,
>for any serious purpose.

3) (expense) Apple wants to make their stuff look good.  One way to make 
   software look good is to make it bigger, and throw more hardware at
   it.  Another way is to make the software "better", which can be done
   by being more clever when you write it, having more employees whose
   job is to test stuff, and spending more time optimizing things.
   Clever programmers cost LOTS of money, so do GOOD software testers,
   and time, well we all know what that costs.  The reasoning is probably
   "Look, we can do all this fancy stuff." rather than "Look at how well
   we can do this."

Look on the bright side:  Someday RAM prices will go down again (I hope).
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