6 May
2002
6 May
'02
7:37 a.m.
You treat 'em differently when (a) you don't like 'em, and (b) they belong to
the boss.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cameron Kaiser" <spectre(a)stockholm.ptloma.edu>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 12:57 PM
Subject: Re: APPLEVISION Monitor
computer
http://www.armory.com/~spectre/ --
>
Richard... are you being treated for your compulsive liar behavior
> problems? You can not possibly have 5+ years of daily Mac use
> under your belt, and show the ignorance of Mac concepts you showed when
> asking about the AppleVision monitor and the Performa 630 (or whatever
> model it was you bought).
Sorry, I have to argue with you here ;)
The fact (well, at least my opinion) is that Apple makes it easy to
remain completely ignorant of most important things about their
computer while still "using" them.
For five years? Granted, I'm a bit more clueful than the average home user, but within weeks I was into the guts of my Macs.
Not to the extent I'm
into my C64, but that's a less complex system.
At the very least, in five years he could have learned to write Macintosh
correctly.
[yoink]
The absence of such tools with which to foul things up was
considered one of
the "good" choices made by Apple Computer Co with respect to the
GUI-computers. I'm not sure I agree, but I can see why one might believe
that. My recollection of the early days of the PC is that most of the
problems were user-induced via config.sys, autoexec.bat, or simple
typer-geographical errors. The PC folks took a while figuring out that having
a seriously damaging command only one typo away from a common but innocuous
one was "not so good."
I'd say that Apple even encourages
user-ignorance by not including
applications that will even let you get at the filesystem with their
O/S -- Finder doesn't count because it won't show desktop (and friends)
at all, and God help you if you want to set file attributes. With
OS X, that's hopefully changed.
That lack of utility software, among other things done by Apple (think
all-in-one, closed box designs) serves to keep users in the dark about
many things.
Apple actually has very good utility software. MPW has been free for some
time, for example. And there's the Apple Developer Connection, too, which
you can browse freely, and oodles of tech notes and explanations.
That's the state of things now. It's been a long and winding road getting
here, though.
Like everything else in life, you get out of the system what you put into
it.
Now, I can't prove this, but I've
personally seen it, so take that
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Hmm.
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