--- Scott Holder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It was excellent. If they'd kept up development of
> it they'd have had
> the OS that's easy enough for everyone to use, but
> UNIX for the power
> users before the Quadras got big in the market
> instead of only now when
> they're playing catchup to Windows.

Playing catchup to Free BSD, Open BSD and Linux. :)
There are some features in Windows that Apple has been
playing catchup on since 1995... But overall I'd
call it a draw. I remember the first OS 8 ads claiming
several "new" features that Win95 had first.

> It's shame, that's for sure.

Yes, a shame that Apple tried to go in so many
directions at once in the immediate pre-Jobs Return
period. The direction of the company was a muddle,
practically every new Mac model had a completely
different design team and there was the madness of
creating "different" models based upon what software
shipped with them. Wasn't it Packard Bell that
started that dumb idea? I always called them
"Packaged Hell". ;)

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