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On the other hand, when push came to shove, an arbitrarily chosen deadline trumped all else. Taking the original Macintosh as an example again, see chapter 7 of
by mwcampbell 5y ago
On the other hand, when push came to shove, an arbitrarily chosen deadline trumped all else. Taking the original Macintosh as an example again, see chapter 7 of Steven Levy's book _Insanely Great_, which describes how the Mac software team scrambled to get a barely working version of MacWrite done in time so the Mac could be announced at Apple's yearly stockholders meeting and available in stores the day after.