I do apologize folks. I've got to get on a plane in a few hours and will be
away from the beloved list for a few days. I just couldn't resist this one
though...
"Boanne Lorraine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [...]
> Bob George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [...]
> }- Don't get me wrong folks: I was a DOS user back when it was
> }- v3.3 running on an Apple II+. I resisted ProDOS, resisted IBM
> ^^^^^^^^^
>
> This explains it, you've been point and drool, excuse me, point
> and click from the beginning. Apple never let the user get their
> hands on the OS, system config, etc so of course this doesn't
> bother you. It bothers me, and most DOS users I know. Some of
> us are not afraid, in fact we enjoy getting right down in the
> guts of the system.
Ah, have you ever actually SEEN DOS 3.3 on an Apple II? I'm talking about
the 48KB (or less) units, the 40 character screen jobbies. Before 99% of the
population had used a computer, much less a mouse. Sorry, but the original
Apple manuals came with the 6502 assembly code for the OS in the manual. The
timing was all done by software timing loops. I used to pore over them
working in bare machine code for days on end. Also used to work inside with
a soldering iron when feeling particularly courageous, and did a bit of
EPROM burning to get various features going. You know, before the evil
empire of IBM tried to take over the personal computer universe?
You DOS people are the wimps! Lowercase and 80 character lines, hah! Now
THERE's bloat for you! Do you realize we could fit twice as much information
into a single byte (more actually) using UPPERCASE ONLY? (I once did a
baudot teletype simulator.) Your downloads would go twice as fast! But I
digress...
You're thinking of Jobs' Apple, not Woz's. It's not my chin that needs the
wiping, nor the memory refresh.
- Bob
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