Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "The Computer Chronicles"
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17:55 MultiFinder was very useful, but it was such a hack. Windows belonging to different applications were kept in separate “layers”, and only those belonging to the foreground application could be moved/resized/interacted with. The ones in the background were effectively just painted onto the desktop, not real windows at all.
Interestingly, this “layer” concept seemed to carry over to some extent to OS X, which you’d think, being a true multitasking OS, wouldn’t be bound by such obsolete restrictions. While OS X let you interleave windows belonging to different applications, it had this weird quirk where, when you closed the frontmost window, the next window to come to the front would come from the same application (if there was such a window), in preference to one from another application, even if the latter was next in stacking order.
I think this limitation still exists in OS X/macOS today.
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3:00 Adobe Illustrator was breathtaking when I first saw it in 1988. And the demo disk had Bach’s Sixth Brandenburg on it, which was also pretty cool.
However, techno-geek that I am, I soon discovered that it would not let you easily change the type of a control point between a smooth and corner join. When Aldus FreeHand came out soon after, it did have that feature, so I preferred it.
Then, sometime in the 1990s, Adobe acquired Aldus, and Macromedia along the way as well. It kept PageMaker and Flash, and possibly also Fontographer, but it got rid of FreeHand.
These days, I use Inkscape. Which has all these features, and more. And interoperates nicely with other tools, like GIMP and Blender.
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