Re:Apple to Pull 'iDOS 2' DOS Emulator from App Store
by userbinator on Friday July 23, 2021 @03:46PM
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Apple has been trying to take control of users ever since the original Macintosh with its attitude of hiding things from them.
DOS came with a debugger that let you modify and create your own software. The Mac didn't.
Planned obsolescence was also not something new --- the infamous Lisa was designed with clock hardware and software that couldn't make it past 1995, for a machine released in 1983. (The PC AT, from 1984, has an RTC that went to at least 2000, and is still a design in use today.)
DOS came with a debugger that let you modify and create your own software. The Mac didn't.
Planned obsolescence was also not something new --- the infamous Lisa was designed with clock hardware and software that couldn't make it past 1995, for a machine released in 1983. (The PC AT, from 1984, has an RTC that went to at least 2000, and is still a design in use today.)