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Skriven 2006-06-07 23:37:00 av Robert E Starr JR (2554.babylon5)
Ärende: Re: Atheists: America's m
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In article <K5CdnaqV_ZW4-hrZnZ2dnUVZ_uidnZ2d@comcast.com>,
 "Carl" <cengman7@hotmail.com> wrote:

> "Gregory Weston" <uce@splook.com> wrote in message 
> news:uce-6BDAEA.17363907062006@comcast.dca.giganews.com...
> > In article <602e82l0kjmcjj1onrvk4stpsl8077h4if@4ax.com>,
> > Josh Hill <usereplyto@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> 
> <snip>
> 
> >> Dude, they didn't even have more than one button on the mouse until
> >> what, a year ago?
> >
> > On the stock mouse, yes. So?
> 
> Unfortunately for Apple, they made it almost a religious issue that they
> only had one button.  Jobs was almost fanatical against two button mice.

I keep hearing that, but there's very little evidence to support it. 
Note, for example, that after leaving Apple Jobs started a company that 
shipped a machine which had a stock 2-button mouse, while Apple - absent 
Jobs - didn't suddenly decide to go with the flow. Meanwhile, Jobs' 
acceptance of the multi-button mouse for NeXT systems apparently wasn't 
a religious conversion because on coming back to Apple he took 7 years 
to introduce a stock mouse that _could_ be treated as a multi-button 
device and (again I'll admit to being puzzled by this) doesn't offer 
that option on the portables yet.

It seems to me that any fanatacism on Jobs' part about the one-button 
mouse on the Mac may have been rooted in an understanding that there was 
a valid business reason for making that the stock device. A business 
reason that didn't disappear when Steve got neutered 16 months later 
after the Mac shipped or when he left 4 months after that.


> >> >Yes, but when the Mac was introduced, that display was eminently
> >> >suitable for the market for which it was introduced. You saw "tiny
> >> >built-in monochrome monitor" as a bad thing. But physically the CRT
> >> >wasn't significantly smaller than most other displays in use in 1984
> >>
> >> Actually, it was, ...
> >
> > Actually, it wasn't. (Your turn.) 9- and 10-inch CRTs were quite common
> > when the Mac was introduced.
> 
> 14 inch monitors were pretty much standard at the time.

14 inch monitors were "pretty much standard" in 1984 and earlier? Not my 
recollection at all. I don't think I sat down in front of a single 14" 
display before 1988 or so. The black-on-white text scheme was admittedly 
a significant deviation from the norm at the time.

G

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