Mac Plus beats AMD Dual Core PC

[PGTips]

@ fryke: I thought I was cynical, but you sure walk away with the prize .

[Qion]

Yes, yes, we're all cynical. That aside, I think Fryke is completely right. Marketing often has more hold on what makes a product than the engineers (with their dogoodery) can produce from their yenning mindsets.

Software has become more bloated regardless of manner. I trust that Apple will start to turn around this hedonism to face real problems instead of inventing new ones.

[Lt Major Burns]

yes, the dashboard clearly shows that apple is thinking about an efficient OS

[fryke]

In a way: Yes. It's not _constantly_ in your face. But I agree that they should focus a little more on productivity. They do that as well, though: Better iCal/Mail.app integration for example coming our way. I just hope one can disable _any_ mentioning of templates in Mail.app 3.0.

[Decade]

Originally Posted by ebykm

We salute the geniuse of Jeff Raskin whose super code made everything to fit on a floppy and leave a reasonable amount of memory for applications, till our developers start shipping OS es and apps based on smaller, efficient, faster code, that upgrading your OS/apps makes your computer faster. Amen.

Um, actually, Jef Raskin is not a coder. He's a designer, and Jobs pushed him out of the Macintosh project long before he could get his ideas implemented.

The real genius coder was Bill Atkinson. He wrote a lot of the GUI code, that was both fast and burned onto the ROMs. That significantly reduced the amount of code that needed to be loaded from disk into RAM, and made it easier to convince developers to use a consistent user interface.

[ebykm]

Thanks, I knew something was mixed up, but didn't know when posted.

Anyway, Mac toolbox and other stuffs were ahead of the time.