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Originally Posted by tw2113
examples of stuff still decently true?
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'...there was another kind of computer developing, in a parallel universe. This was the Apple, and it operated on an entirely different concept, which was: A regular human could use it. ... ...even a child could understand this. For many years, while we MS-DOS were typing insanely obscure instructions like:
dir c:\abcproj\docs\lttrs\sales\apr\*.*
...the Apple people were simply aiming their little mouse pointers at little pictures and going "click."
...We don't want some wussy "user-friendly" computer: We want a
challenge.
That's why, to this very day, Apple is not considered by us cyberwonks to be a truly serious computer. It is viewed as a computer that is popular mainly with your flaky or artsy-fartsy type of individual--your artist, your poet, your beatnik, your flower-arranger, your heroin addict. We serious users pride ourselves on wrestling with openly hostile computers that are running an operating system from the proud, incomprehensible Microsoft tradition.'