Re: Wozniak vs Jobs

[regnirps@aol.com (Regnirps)]

>Forrest <squitaur@net-gate.com> wrote:


>On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, Perry Dueck wrote:
>
>> Hrrrmmm...my Mac always spits the floppy disk out automatically when I
>> choose "Shut Down" from the Finder's 'Special' Menu. Which, incidentally,
>> is the proper way to shut down a Mac (not just flipping the on/off switch
>> of off any old time).
>
>  Which, I feel obliged to say, is the most stupid intentional design 
>flaw ever foisted on the computing public.  Since power failures can 
>happen at any time, and since total system lockups can happen
>at any time, the only rational way to design a
>computer system is to keep things as stable as possible as much of the
>time as possible; instead Apple seems to have gone out of its way to do 
>the exact opposite.  And the idea seems to have spread all over the place.

Which I feel obliged to say is required for a deterministic operating system
and a chief factor that makes the Mac workable and reliable. Allowing a user to
pop out a disk at any time wether writing and reading or not, is like allowing
them to pop out RAM SIMMS when they feel like it and expecting the computer to
not notice! Its all memory you know. If you can't figure this out then you are
an "in betweener" in between the old days of removable hard disk packs that had
to be logically mounted and dismounted and the modern system where the Mac does
the logical work for you. You are stuck in the DOS doldrums where the OS was
too stupid and the hardware to ill concieved to do it right.

Charlie Springer