On 8/30/06, Tito Mari Francis Escaño <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 8/30/06, Rogelio Serrano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > it was done with a 5 mhz computer 21 years ago. canon was stupid then > and sold it as a typewriter replacement. the technology is all there > and it has improved since. > > there was a time when the mac team had to choose among two different > design paradigms. steve jobs was so taken by the xerox design that he > chose what became the mac now. the other design went to canon and > canon bungled it. thats the design i am researching now and a lot of > people are saying that its a viable alternative to the mac wimp ui. it > is just as powerful and it requires only a fraction of effort and > resources to develop. steve jobs made a mistake. but thats only my > opinion and about many tens of retired apple engineers. Are you referring to the computer that Jef Raskin worked on in Apple as the first Macintosh prototype? Speaking of limitation and alternative UI, pls checkout: http://www.raskincenter.org/ Hope this helps. :)
Yes i bought all his books last year and read through all of them already. -- things i hate about my linux pc: 1. it takes more than a second to boot up 2. keeps asking about filenames and directories 3. does not remember what i was working on yesterday 4. does not remember all the changes i have ever made 5.cannot figure out necessary settings by itself
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