Re: Of course we can trust Apple for our next OS!

["Edwin E. Thorne" <edwin.thorne@rauland.com>]

Eric Bennett <ericb@pobox.com> wrote in article
<ericb-0204981537060001@132.236.171.104>...
> In article <ethorne-0104982015260001@pppsl542.chicgaonet.net>,
> ethorne@chicagonet.net (Edwin E. Thorne) wrote:
> 
> > >ugh.  i never really cared for the Mac, in ANY of its incarnations. 
> > 
> > Why not?  Why is the Apple II better than a Mac?
> 
> It had color.  It was more expandable that the original Mac.  On the GS,
> you could use a GUI or a command line out of the box.


These were good reasons from 1984 to 1986.    They're nothing but
historical trivia in 1998.   Besides, the whole idea of the Mac OS was to
eliminate the need for the CLI.

What type of GUI did the Apple II have?   Was there a name for it?   Was it
like GEOS or the Mac OS?

BTW, your description of the Apple II could be applied to the Amiga.  ;-)

> 
> At the beginning, of course, it had more software, but that's not
relevant
> to which machine, on its own merits, was better.

Agreed.

> -- 
> Eric Bennet (www.pobox.com/~ericb)
> Cornell University Biochemistry Department
>