Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 16:10:58 -0000
From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com>
Subject: Tidbit - Good Quote on Mac Plug 'n' Play

Keyword: Advocacy, Why Macs Are Better

This tidbit is from:

Kenneth T. Lim

Jeffery Harrow, a Senior consulting engineer at Digital writes a growing 
and influential weekly email column called the The Rapidly Changing Face 
of Computing (can be found at <http://www.digital.com/rcfoc>. and in 
CMP's TechWeb newsletter) I excerpted the following pro-Mac from his 
latest column...

"This brings me to an important point -- and a significant opportunity 
(necessity?) for traditional PC hardware and software manufacturers: With 
more and more information appliances landing in the hands of business and 
home users who would throw up their hands at a DOS command line or at 
configuring IRQs, make things simpler! ! !

"That's my challenge to our industry for 1998 and beyond. Make things 
simpler. Everyone will benefit. For example, I wanted to add a new video 
card to one of my PCs to give it NTSC video in-and-out capabilities. I 
won't bore you with the horrors of what plug and play did to my system, 
but suffice to say I ended up pulling the video card. These types of 
difficulties will keep people from buying products that contribute to 
every vendor's bottom line. (These complexities are the result of the 
historic PC architecture, but there are better ways. After all, I've 
never had a problem installing any board on my Macintoshes.) "