8 Oct
2011
8 Oct
'11
2:39 p.m.
On 08/10/11 4:22 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
I seem to rememebr there were some issues where the original Apple SCSI,
as on the Mac+ wasn't quite the same as the rest of the world.
See, that's the difference between people who use Macs (and used them
the time) and the rest. Your superstition isn't true. There is perfect
interoperability with SCSI disks, tapes, scanners, printers, etc. This
was years in advance of the PC world noticing SCSI, of course...
While we're talking standard interfaces, Apple also introduced IEEE-1394
to their desktops and laptops in advance of the rest.
I don't like that fact that they rarely, if ever,
follow standards.
Eh? The company that first made the leap to USB? SCSI?
This is one of the most egregious and ridiculous lies that people tell
about Apple.
I also remmeber that Apple Nubus was not the same as the Nubus standard.
Yes it does. The original Mac OSs didn't have any real way of automating
tasks. A computer is good at doing the same thing over and over again
with slight changes. Not to have that facility makes the machine
essentialyl useuless to me.
If you'd used a Mac you know that automation facilities existed in
System 7, 8 and 9, and of course OS X, and there was third party
automation at least in System 6. There were also command lines
available, not least the well respected MPW shell, if you wanted one.
--Toby
I
don't like the fact that early Mac OSs didn't have any form of command
line
Eh, it didn't matter unless you were accustomed to a command line, and the Mac's targer user certainly was not. You
are not the classic Mac's
target user, clearly.
Clearly not.
-tony