CompuServe Messages

Who wrote "Inside Macintosh"? Well, the Apple people who developed the Mac system software of course (who wrote the Amiga's RKM, Intuition, or AmigaDOS manuals? The people who wrote the Amiga system software of course. Its the same situation). And I still disagree with you. From a developer's standpoint there was virtually NO difference in philosophy when the Mac was introduced vs. when the Amiga was introduced. The "rigid guidelines" were not rigid in the Mac documentation, any more than the "guidelines" in the Intuition manual were rigid. They were simply more thought out and complete (and, unlike RJ's ramblings in the Intuition manual, the Mac's suggested guidelines were also internally consistent). There was nothing in the system whatsoever that made people use these guidelines–as I stated before this was all due to the marketing people who convinced software buyers that programs should follow the guidelines. I don't know where you got your ideas about what programming on the Mac is like, but I can tell you from experience (I was working on both machines the year, and almost the month, they were both released) that your conceptions do not agree with what really happened.