On 9/5/02 10:06 AM, "Andrew Nielsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 10:02 +0800 09/05/2002, Shay Telfer wrote: >>> Everything is an evolution from the previous version. Did you know that when >>> QuickDraw was first released is was not accelerated by the graphics >>> hardware. It too almost 5 or 6 years before that happened. Apple has managed >>> to get it working on Quartz by version 2. That is quite an accomplishment. >> >> You forget Matt, I was using QuickDraw when there was no graphics >> hardware for it to be accelerated by. > > And QuickDraw was squeezed into the same 128K ROM that much of the > rest of the operating system was. *sigh* Those were the days. When I was at school, every student had their own 800K floppy disk which held their system folder and a years worth of documents. Walk up to ANY mac, put in your disk and boot the machine. All your documents, all your settings. Perfect network security. Regards Matthew Healey -- Matthew Healey Information Systems Western Orthopaedic Clinic [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +61 (08) 9489 8700 Fax: +61 (08) 9381 8300 Suite 213 25 McCourt Street Subiaco 6008 Western Australia
