By choosing to focus on computers rather than the tasks we wanted done, we inherited much of the baggage that had accumulated around earlier generati… - Jef Raskin

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By choosing to focus on computers rather than the tasks we wanted done, we inherited much of the baggage that had accumulated around earlier generations of computers. It is more a matter of style and operating systems that need elaborate user interfaces to support huge application programs. These structures demand ever larger memories and complex peripherals. It's as if we had asked for a bit of part-time help and were given a bureaucracy.