Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "john dean" <deanwork2003@y...> wrote:
> 
> Well - as graphics professionals we will never be "stuck". Microsoft belongs in the offices 
> of accountants and typists.

Actually, that's why Apple created "Lisa", the first predecessor to the Mac, and gave it a GUI and a mouse. It was designed to be the ultimate spreadsheet machine for high power accountants and financiers. The DTP was just for pretty financial reports. The fact that the machine failed miserably in its target market, and went on to find widespread acceptance in the graphics arts community, surprised the heck out of Apple.

> Windows is a disgrace for graphics, and should be eliminated 
> from the face of the earth, forever and ever, amen. Do you see them producing high-end 
> cinema  animation like Lord of the Rings on Windows 2000 or NT, hell no.

Actually, they seldom allow Macs near anything as important as major movie visuals.

WETA, who won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects for LOTR, created the animation on a network of SGI Octane workstations, and rendered them on....

3200 PCs, in rack after rack of blades. 

> That would be 
> retarded.

Mirror, mirror, on the wall...

> They do that on a G5. We're not going anywhere.

You're quite right. You're not going...

anywhere...

ever.

Seriously, I've found the majority of Mac users are decent people. It's amazing how one bad apple (or one opinionated Apple user) can spoil a whole bunch of good.

Ciao!

Joe