- From: Scott E. Preece <preece@predator.urbana.mcd.mot.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 08:36:20 -0500
- To: dxc@ast.cam.ac.uk
- CC: mag@ncsa.uiuc.edu, www-html@w3.org
From: Dave Carter <dxc@ast.cam.ac.uk> | | On Thu, 17 Oct 1996, Scott E. Preece wrote: | | > Why, oh why, has our industry (with the notable exception of Apple) been | > unable to figure out how to do typed files? | > | | Wait a minute, I think you will find that Acorn RISCOS has a perfectly | good system of file types. And they have a similar profile in my country | to that which Apple has in yours. Except they don't lose as much money. --- Sorry - I should have restricted my comments to the major commercial personal computer OSs in the US market (:-)... Certainly there have been lots of OSs in other areas that did have typed files (areas such as Lisp workstations and office automation systems, for instance, as well as research systems). Apple, by the way, just reported that it *did* make money this quarter. scott -- scott preece motorola/mcg urbana design center 1101 e. university, urbana, il 61801 phone: 217-384-8589 fax: 217-384-8550 internet mail: preece@urbana.mcd.mot.com
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