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Re:Emulate Mac OS 9 with QEMU by mietek on Monday December 03, 2018 @01:19PM (#18591314)
> …the opaqueness was not conducive to creating a culture of power users and "semi-developers" unlike the PCs of the time.

Utter nonsense, as anyone who has ever used ResEdit can tell.

http://basalgangster.macgui.com/RetroMacComputing/The_Long_V...

Also, extended file attributes are alive and well.

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Re:Emulate Mac OS 9 with QEMU by userbinator on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @08:11AM (#18599088)
...so you have to go get additional software in order to do that, instead of being able to use what comes with the OS? That's already going to turn off a bunch of users.

In those days, PC users were entering Asm code published in magazines into DEBUG (which came with MS-DOS), creating real application binaries.

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