More broken Apples...

[Ray Arachelian]

dwight elvey wrote:
>  Jef was a strongly thought that even the Apple II should
> have RAM bitmapped graphics. I doubt he changed his mind
> for the Mac. What he was against was mixing text entry
> and graphics operations. He was not against graphics
> or the mouse. 
>   
I could see where this is a problem.  The mixed modes are useful in
certain fields... like semi-graphical adventure games... Think Zork but
with a display of where you are as well as a text entry field.
Which I suppose is what they were used for.

Switching between text mode and graphic modes has gone the way of the
dodo.  Mostly because of graphics accelerator cards.  But text modes do
tend to be a lot faster.

>  The Canon Cat was restricted to a text only machine
> because of Canon. It was designed to have graphic
> capabilities with a mouse, by Jef.
>   
Yup.
>  He just didn't want people bouncing back and forth
> between the mouse and the keyboard.
>   

I tend to agree with that sentiment.  I've come to hate mice and love
the little nipple pointer things on keyboards from using IBM thinkpads
for so long.
Never liked trackpads, didn't really like mice, I do like trackballs
though - they give a lot more feedback than trackpads.  The whole
lifting your hand off the keyboard to move the mouse (or trackball) and
then back to type thing is annoying.