[filmscanners] RE: OT: RE: Get a Mac... or a VAX?

["Austin Franklin" <darkroom@ix.netcom.com>]

Anthony,

No, that is a different issue.  I was specifically talking about graphics
support.  It is true on the Mac, as well as the Amiga, and Atari and the
Star.  It is not true of any mainframe that I am aware of.  Of course they
have boot support for specific devices inherent, but as I said, that's an
entirely different thing.

As I said, anyone who is/was a Mac (Amiga, Atari or Star) developer, would
understand the significance.

Austin

> It's true of any operating system designed for specific hardware, or vice
> versa.  Just about all mainframe operating systems are in this
> category, and
> they are mated to the hardware even better than operating systems like the
> Mac or VMS or Windows.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <david_bookbinder@sprynet.com>
> To: <anthony@atkielski.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 06:33
> Subject: [filmscanners] OT: RE: Get a Mac... or a VAX?
>
>
> This was also the claim of the VAX/VMS marketing group and
> development team
> (of which I was a part, many years ago when minis were king and the Xerox
> Star was the closest thing we had to todays Mac or Windows machine).
>
> - David
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk
> [mailto:filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of Austin Franklin
> Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 11:40 PM
> To: david_bookbinder@sprynet.com
> Subject: [filmscanners] RE: Get a Mac...Digital Darkroom ComputerBuilders?
>
>
> Anthony,
>
> > > A few years ago someone told me that the Macs
> > > were designed so that "the software could
> > > work together with the hardware".
> >
> > Yeah, that sounds about like what a typical Mac user might say.
>
> It's somewhat true.  There are many things inherent in the Mac
> BIOS/OS that
> facilitate graphics more so than in a PC.  It's only recently with Visual
> bla bla, that you have easier access to using some of these things.
>
> If you've never done any Mac development vs PC development, you wouldn't
> know, and if you have, you would.
>
> Austin

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