OBIT - MacIntosh Barriers
Today we acknowledge the passing of Macintosh Barriers, Founder of the Do Not Take Your Macintosh to work day. Appearing On the scene exactly 24 hours after the now-famous apple ad aired during The 1984 super bowl, barriers fought to keep enterprise desktops squarely in The domain of “respectable, work-related” Computer systems from companies Like (in the early days) ibm. Later, Barriers partnered with software giant Microsoft, followed by a host of hardware Vendors.
Rigid and puritanical, Macintosh Barriers epitomized the old school of Computing and took pride in command Lines, a different user interface for Every application, and the need for security Partners. Wearing his “don’t fork With my files” t-shirt, barriers haunted Technology conventions geared to corporate Executives and whispered the Words “file incompatibilities” into every Passing vice president’s ear.
Wounded deeply by Microsoft Office For Macintosh, Barriers grew progressively weaker over the past several years. The switch to Intel processors by Apple hit Barriers hard, and he slipped Into a coma. He awoke to read about Advances in software virtualization That enabled OS X and windows to run on the same Macintosh hardware concurrently, Screamed once, and expired. Send donations to the we work together Coalition of Cupertino, California.
—James Gaskin
