Re: Apple II-Or Come on people, It's a 20 year old computer

[pausch@saafNOSPAM.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <jra8lskfg7763mois74i8a1onbbl1qt17r@news.newsguy.com>,
Paul Guertin  <pg@sff.net> wrote:
> "ruud.dingemans" <ruud.dingemans@wanadoo.nl> wrote:
> 
>> Paul Schlyter wrote:
>>> The IBM PC was really a quite
>>> non-remarkable computer, who happened to be manufactured by the
>>> perhaps oldest coputer company in the world.  But the PC was open,
>>> and it was practical.
>> 
>> It was neither. It was not "open" for others to copy
> 
> "Open" does not mean "available for others to copy". It means that
> anyone (not just registered developers) can get their hands on
> technical information about the inner workings of the computer, so
> they can adapt it to their needs. The IBM PC was open, the Lisa
> was not.
 
And the Apple II was open....
 
>> and it was
>> certainly not practical (put yer average grandma behind the original
>> MS-DOS PC's and get my point; then put them behind a Lisa and see the
>> difference.)
> 
> I taught "average grandmas" (65-year-olds with no computer experience
> whatsoever) to do word processing on two different systems: WordPerfect
> under MS-DOS and Microsoft Word under MacOS. Both groups took about the
> same time to become reasonably proficient.
> 
> As the saying goes, the only intuitive user interface is the nipple.
> 
> Paul Guertin
> pg@sff.net
 
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