blech:
posted on 2004/02/27 09:54
Nothing really new, but still a nice recap.
Especially the Mach-O, PEF and CFM stuff.
See also previous spoolage here, here and here.
via buzz anderson's del.icio.us links.
[ 0 days, 3 hours later ]
By the same author, why Word 6.0 for Mac was 'a crappy product'.
'While 68K Classic Mac OS was a nice operating system, it had one very glaring flaw. It didn't do memory management very well.'
'In fact, it barely did any memory management at all.'
... 'I want to be careful, here, not to lay blame for this at Apple's feet.'
Ah, here's where I get to mount my favourite soapbox.
'We spent so much time, and put so much effort into, solving all the technical problems of Mac Word 6.0 that we failed to make the UI of Mac Word 6.0 behave like Mac Word 5.0.'
s/Mac Word 6.0/the Mac OS X Finder/; s/Mac Word 5.0/the Mac OS Finder/;
It's exactly the same. Apple's been amazingly lucky that most OS X Finder users never seemed to miss the features of the old Finder.
jerakeen:
You're not bitter about the finder at all, are you?
blech:
Just like there are still diehards who use Word 5.0, and more who praise it, there will be diehards (like me, yes, jerakeen) for the old Finder for a decade or two.
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Quarter Life Crisis / Sine Romance: Comment in The Guardian has it that maths teaching should be as much about its romance and mystery as about sines and cosines. There we go. Looks like people...
We hate you all. Yes, especially you. Sod off and DIE