[SCC_Active_Members] History of Apple OSs

[Tim Shoppa]

Larry Masinter <LMM at acm.org> wrote:
> (a) accept all contributions
> (b) point contributors to some other forum which
>    already collects entries, and just use those
>    sites as a reference.
>
> For example, Wikipedia contains a number of related entries,
> starting with:
>       http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_os
> and   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_history
>
>
> and it would seem like they're doing a pretty good job
> of 'collecting' this kind of anecdotal information.
> I don't see an advantage in CHM duplicating this
> service piecemeal.

This particular subject - one which is an excellent example of
the many "religious wars" in computing - is not one that is necessarily
well preserved by Wikipedia.

I don't have anything intrinsically against Wikipedia. (In fact it
does a lot of things better than a traditional Encyclopedia). But it is
constantly being revised/purged based on the beliefs/whims of a few and
is not a good way to preserve memories (even recent memories) of
anything that might be subject to disagreement (either between religious
zealots or between an individual and a corporation).

Tim.