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makeup storage systems Belated look at the OSXhints April Fool's front page
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Not that the machines of the time really ever kept up with the mouse anyway! Maybe you're thinking of a different time... the early Suns running Sunwindows did mouse and window tracking in the kernel, and were the only machines I have used where there was never any mouse delay. Try a very early Mac running System 6 or lower some time. You might be in for a surprise. Didn't using the floppy drive steal interrupts from the mouse, and make it run *very* jerkily? Highly likely, but given the nature of the beast, I don't think I've ever tried using the mouse while the floppy drive was running - certainly not in any sense of `Okay, now I'll try to do the next step before this small slow single tasking computer has finished accessing its floppy disc drive.' Well, you wouldn't, would you? Rowland.
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makeup storage systems Belated look at the OSXhints April Fool's front page
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Not that the machines of the time really ever kept up with the mouse anyway! Maybe you're thinking of a different time... the early Suns running Sunwindows did mouse and window tracking in the kernel, and were the only machines I have used where there was never any mouse delay. Try a very early Mac running System 6 or lower some time. You might be in for a surprise. Didn't using the floppy drive steal interrupts from the mouse, and make it run *very* jerkily? Highly likely, but given the nature of the beast, I don't think I've ever tried using the mouse while the floppy drive was running - certainly not in any sense of `Okay, now I'll try to do the next step before this small slow single tasking computer has finished accessing its floppy disc drive.' Well, you wouldn't, would you? The progress box that appeared usually had a Cancel button on it, so I think at least one person expected the mouse to be usable  Cheers, Chris
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Things used to be incorporated in the Mac interface because of the way they worked, now they are being removed and replaced by inferior systems. The only reason for this appears to be because the inferior systems are familiar to Windows users - which hardly bodes well for the future of Mac as an alternative to Windows. as it apears to be in robust health compared to what it was like in 8.6 days i think it's chances are good. roger
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Not that the machines of the time really ever kept up with the mouse anyway! Maybe you're thinking of a different time... the early Suns running Sunwindows did mouse and window tracking in the kernel, and were the only machines I have used where there was never any mouse delay. Try a very early Mac running System 6 or lower some time. You might be in for a surprise. Didn't using the floppy drive steal interrupts from the mouse, and make it run *very* jerkily? Highly likely, but given the nature of the beast, I don't think I've ever tried using the mouse while the floppy drive was running - certainly not in any sense of `Okay, now I'll try to do the next step before this small slow single tasking computer has finished accessing its floppy disc drive.' Well, you wouldn't, would you? Rowland. i might well attually i've allways tryed to multtasked, hell i sometimes talk in 3 differnt converstions ask my long suffering Sa. also why macosx with it's unix pluming has been better equiped to cope with what i might do... roger
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But most of this didn't come from apple in the first place, it was copied from various freeware/shareware programs. Apple were just copying what was popular. That's part of the point: Apple provided this stuff as part of the OS - it was tuned in to the needs of users back then. Now, we have to spend long hours tracking it down and then paying extra for facilities that used to come with the price of the OS. As far as I'm aware, Apple came up with the app menu and Launcher by itself. The Apple menu was Apple's idea too - the hierarchical aspect only was copied from BeHierarchic. Windowshade was bought in, IIRC. I thought it was all pretty well bought in apart from the apple menu. That's not what I've gathered from what I've read of the development. For example: The Application Menu was introduced for System 7 by Apple and there was no opportunity for a third party developer to get there first because until System 7 came out, multitasking was impossible. Application switching under System 6's Multifinder was operated via a menu bar control similar to and at the position
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[snip] Not that the machines of the time really ever kept up with the mouse anyway! I've got a Mac 512Ke. It keeps up with mouse movement no worries. The very early Macs had the mouse trip a CPU interrupt directly in case you're wondering how they managed it. I know exactly how the macs did it, pretty well the same way everything did, but i was refering to the suns workstations. If you meant Suns only, why refer to `machines' in the general sense as you did? A mistake. Although as pointed out - the mac cursor fell apart when reading the disk anyway.
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