Re: Woz interview

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Steve wrote:

>Linux has even grown to the point where it is impossible to be a "hacker"
>without having a full and complete understanding of the uber-geek internals.
>
>I never understood mac users, as every app was plain vanilla, the "hardware"
>and "os" were hidden from the user, and there was no "command line". It was
>as if Steve Jobs actually went out of his way to eliminate the "hacker" from
>the mac.
>
>Of course, this was a good thing, as it standardized the interface and
>eliminated alot of stupid-user errors (del c:\windows /s)!
>
>However, the PC in the mid 80's was really a hackers paradise. Software
>cool, simple and fun. You could mix and match hardware. How cool was it when
>8 bit digitized sounds was standardized with the SoundBlaster Pro???
>
>PC's are still mix and match, but the OS's (even linux) has become bloated
>and inaccessible. There was a pure joy dropping to the basic prompt on an
>apple II under prodos, creating a basic program and saving it.
>
>All these things are possible, and easier to do with Windows, but the fun is
>largely gone.
>
>I dream of running GS/OS on modern hardware. It would be soooooo cool.

Ah, but even GS/OS is much further down the MacOS road than I
care to go.  ProDOS is about as "heavyweight" as I want an OS to
be (unless I've written it myself).

I miss the days when developer documentation of the hardware
outweighed developer documentation of the software.  ;-)

-michael

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