New perspectives on Macintosh [from INFO-MCIRO]

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From: Werner Uhrig
From [email protected] (Bob Starr) Sun Feb 6 00:28:16 206
Subject: New perspectives on Macintosh

I have been reading the letters and reviews of the Macintosh which
have been swamping the computer press lately.

Most of the letters begin "I have had my Macintosh a week now, and
boy is it wonderful and boy IBM should be scared...." and other such
mouth foaming.

I always wondered about those letters... the Mac may be easy enough
to use that it was choice #1 of people who had lobotomies, but
christ, you don't know enough about a machine in a week to rave about
it, sell your mother for it, etc.

Well, boys and girls, *finally* I am seeing realistic appraisals of
the Mac (from people who *really* tried to *use* the thing for a
*real* application).

They appear in the latest issue of Byte (July). One thing to read is
the editorial (p.6) from Phil Lemmons (Byte Editor in Chief), and
the other is from our old friend Jerry Pournelle in his "Chaos Manor"
column (p.312-316 & p.376-377).

I won't tell you what they say, but Phil Lemmons closes his editorial
saying "truly friendly computers, like friendly humans, give their human
friends credit for some intelligence."

Personal note: All I have seen Macs and Lisas used for is generating
cute little notes to hang around the computer room! They just pass the
IBM PC by when it comes to doing "serious" work!