Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/06/16

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Mac User and Programmer
From: Ken Wilcox <klw.51@comcast.net>
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 17:29:25 -0400
References: <78CB00E6-8159-11D6-8253-003065F9C82E@kvdpsu.org>

Pete:

This is one long time Mac user, (also done Windoz and Unix) that 
LOVES OS X. A giant leap forward in usability and incredible 
stability!

Ken Wilcox


At 2:47 PM -0400 6/16/02, Pete Su wrote:
>
>2. Users don't like change. Hence all the Mac OS X angst. OS X fixes 
>huge deficiencies in the OS 9 platform, esp. with regard to the 
>performance of the machine when performing multiple tasks at the 
>same time. But, to get there, the interface changed to be a hybrid 
>of the traditional Mac UI and pieces of NeXTstep (NeXT is where Jobs 
>went in 1985 when Apple chucked him). Maybe things could have turned 
>out differently, but they didn't. So this is what we have. It's 
>probably the case that we'd either have this or Apple would 
>currently be gone or part of some other company.
>
>
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