Re: Delphi dumps Apple II users

["John King" <joki@eskimo.com>]

"Rubywand" <rubywand@swbell.net> wrote in message
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> > People are tired of wasting time and
> > money on this old computer, which has lead to the
> > disappearance of popular publications, software, and
> > websites.  Computer users don't have time to mess with
> > the obselete when they can use the powerful machines
> > of this century.

Wow! H.A.L. lives.  Power <> meaning or fun.

>      The current "powerful machine" platform is a multi-layered kludge of
> design compromises which discourages user mastery. In fact, since no one
> controls platform parameters, it pretty much discourages mastery by
anyone.

Interesting comment because some people who like to hack the Apple also like
Linux perhaps because it encourages understanding as oppose to MS which
forces acceptance.