Actually, some
of the real dogs are just as fun and important. The Lisa,
for example, strikes out on all three (OK, two strikes and one foul) of the
above mentioned catagories, but is still a fascinating machine.
IMHO, the Lisa gets a hit, a base run, then a strike-out.
Let me clarify my analogy:
aesthetic - strike - At least a few poeple back then said it looked like
an old fashioned computer terminal. The other machines of the
time looked far more modern.
technical - foul - It seems that the Lisa should do better here, but I
really think the engineers blew it. The original OS is too innovative,
so much that the computer is nearly unuseable.
success - strike - Obviously!
William Donzelli
william(a)ans.net