Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
Different situation entirely. PCDOS was a very simple thing by comparison to the graphical UI Macintosh OS and didn't require hardly anything at all to write code for, other than a language and a code generator. It was an out of date computer practically before it shipped.
The Lisa and then the Mac were well ahead of their time.
Not only were they ahead of their time, they were way ahead of their hardware too. It wasn't until the 21st century that my experiences on macs weren't painfully slow because of all of the frosting and sprinkles. And, boy howdy were they counter intuitive. Pictographic languages might be fine if you're Chinese, but how the hell am I supposed to guess what circle-squiggle-splat means?
At least with OSX you could get to a bash prompt and have a user interface designed for grownups.
G
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