Amen, brother!
(Sorry, I just couldn't resist ;-)
Robert Weeks
Owner of:
Mac G3 desktop
Mac G3 powerbook
Mac 8500/233
Mac Classic
Mac Plus
At 1:31 AM -0700 9/18/99, Gerard Chateauvieux wrote:
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>If innovation is what the masses desire, then everyone would own Macintosh
>computers. I can't think of anything more mundane and "without character"
>as a PC, especially in the mid-eighties and early 90's. Windows '95 was
>totally inspired by the Mac OS and came onto the scene nearly 10 years
>after the Mac OS first appeared. Yes, Jobs 'stole' the idea from Xerox, but
>at least he had the vision to bring it to the masses, otherwise it would
>be in a trash bin somewhere, and we'd all be using DOS (if we even had
>computers). Even the iMac is now being imitated by one PC manufacturer. A
>year and a half later, they are making an iMac look-alike. I'm sure more
>will follow.
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