albaugh@dms.UUCP (Mike Albaugh) (10/05/88)
From article <548@dms.UUCP>, by albaugh@dms.UUCP (Mike Albaugh): [much flamage, perhaps induced by BigMac attack, perhaps not] Before I start a flame war, I gues I should just say that my previous message even looked bad too me in the cold light of dawn. I need to re-read the ettiquette guide again. Anyway, pretty much what I meant to say is that those who are so dazzled by the style of modern Personal Computers (generic term, not (tm)IBM, including, but not limitted to the MAC) that they lose sight of the basic hackeroid underlying system might _benefit_ from a few CS courses, but they are unlikely to approve_of/enjoy them. My personal belief is that first you get the underlying foundation right, then you add mice/windows/data_gloves/eeg_readers/etc... My experience with the MAC is that first they got the mouse and windows working, then built an operating system underneath. I _know_ that's not literally the case, but the pain currently being experienced by system 6.0 users, and the wait for OS2/386 and Presentation manager are powerful arguments. I still think there are more uses for computers than those that map conveniently to mouse/windows, and I still think that those who disagree are welcome to their opinion, as long as they allow me mine (and stay away from SDI 1/2 :-) ) > | Mike Albaugh (albaugh@dms.UUCP || {decwrl!turtlevax!}weitek!dms!albaugh) > | Atari Games Corp (Arcade Games, no relation to the makers of the ST) > | 675 Sycamore Dr. Milpitas, CA 95035 voice: (408)434-1709 > | The opinions expressed are my own (Boy, are they ever)