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"Inside Macintosh" superb? I was puzzled and then disgusted when I saw that in stores, and realized the difference between Macs and the Apple II. The manual fo
by 8bitsrule 5y ago
"Inside Macintosh" superb? I was puzzled and then disgusted when I saw that in stores, and realized the difference between Macs and the Apple II.
The manual for that machine was a masterpiece ... written for users. The 'revolution' ... obfuscating the OS internals, limiting access to the anointed ... was a tragedy. 'Killing Big Brother' my ass.
(It took me a lot of digging - in those pre-web days - to find out what magic numbers to poke, and where to poke, to turn the Mac serial port into a MIDI port.)
Anyway, I expected the 'elephant' to be the array of monopoly-busting legislation floating around the Congress right now. Popcorn ready.