July 1, 2003
The Finder according to Hertzfeld.
The recent spate of love it or hate it posturing around the latest iteration of the Mac OS X Finder is historically rooted in the ongoing search for the perfect file management environment. A search, I might add, that has been in progress since the introduction of the Mac. Of course, there is no such animal — Jaguar, Panther or otherwise. But we’ve been darn close. Somewhere between ingenious simplicity of Andy Hertzfeld’s Switcher (no, not that Switcher…) and the half-assed implementation of MultiFinder, there was Macintosh Servant. Yet another reason that Apple should have kept Andy a bit happier and had him hang around the campus longer than he did. He certainly cranked out a continuous stream of goodies for a lot of other companies after vacating the fruit stand. The article above was written by one of my Newton-using acquaintances, Josh Burker. It had been buried (or in his words, ‘festering’) on his site for a while. I happened to stumble across the link while visiting his Newton web server. It’s a good read for those interested in the developmental minutia surrounding the Macintosh.
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