>> wouldn’t you have thought that you had died and gone to heaven if that had been the context in which you wrote software for the Mac in 1990?
Sorry, I didn’t address your specific question. Truth be told, when I started programming professionally in ‘85, after a couple years into it I ALREADY thought I had “died and gone to heaven” because I was working on 68K macs! They were way cooler than the alternatives back then. I only worked on PowerPC for a couple years — even so, I had a PowerPC NuBus card that plugged into my (68030) Quadra 800!
It wasn’t Apple hardware or software that was responsible for my transition away from Mac. It was the simple realities of the industry segment I serve: EDA, test and measurement software, process control, and the like. Apple never went down this road, and I never left it. That’s really all there is to it.
It wasn’t Apple hardware or software that was responsible for my transition away from Mac. It was the simple realities of the industry segment I serve: EDA, test and measurement software, process control, and the like. Apple never went down this road, and I never left it. That’s really all there is to it.
Yes, but would that have been an issue if Apple had been using Intel chips and Unix- with the concurrent ability to run Windows? It seems to me that in such case you wouldn't have felt compelled to switch.My opinion is that computers are going to continue getting physically smaller and electronically bigger - and that they are eventually going to become verbal. You'll talk to them, and they'll talk to you.
Just curious. Were you working with National Instruments?