interesting Quora post on Marklar

On Jun 12, 2012, at 11:05 AM, Liam Proven wrote: Wouldn't say "came to nothing". It had a fairly long run as abortive products go. It died before its time, certainly. ...was a nice idea, but ultimately impractical. Microsoft essentially does it with OLE, which makes a handy mess out of document formats. I wouldn't even say it "came to nothing"; it was the primary communications facility right up until the end of "classic" Mac OS. It wouldn't have made a lot of sense to use on a Unix platform. Didn't quite die, but essentially got re-absorbed as OS X components. I barely remember these two. Was terrible. It deserved to perish in flames. So does Spotlight, IMHO, but it's an Important Part Of The Operating System (tm) now, especially given Apple's apparent intent to make it increasingly difficult to find where your documents are stored with every new OS X iteration. - Dave