Re: Randy's inherent hate of Apple IIs

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

Jeffrey Robertson (jeffr@bnr.ca) wrote:

[snip]

: So where does that leave us?  Trying to explain why Apple broke
: such a fundamental s/w design guideline.  Obvious wrong answer:
: the designers were stupid.  As Nathan points out, they got it
: right 2 out of 3 times, which is unlikely to be the result of
: blind luck.

: Obvious right answer: Market pressure drove them to have to
: release before they were ready.  Those of us who live in the
: real world of s/w design know all about this kind of thing.
: Anyone who has not experienced this unpleasant fact of life
: as never worked in the software industry.

This would be a good reason, aside from one detail: system 4.0 the first
release of GS/OS, came out in '88. System 6.0.1, the last release, came out
in '93. That gave the engineers almost five years to fix any deficiencies.
If you ever used 4.0, you know what a vast improvement in speed came with
5.0. It seems far fetched to me that while they were making faster toolsets,
finder, etc, they purposely left this supposedly ill designed FST mechanism
in place.

Also Jim Murply has some good points in his followup to the original thread.
Nathan is a little too handy with willy nilly changes to the subject line
in his followups so you don't see it in this thread.

: Now, back to your ongoing flame-fest...

I'd prefer not myself
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