WHEN I BOUGHT MY FIRST MAC in 1987 the computer salesman offered me the choice of two graphics programs: I could pick either MacDraw or MacPaint.
‘What’s the difference?’ I asked
The salesman looked at me contemptuously. ‘MacPaint is a bitmap program,’ he explained, ‘whereas MacDraw is object-oriented.’
Apple may have gone to extreme lengths to make computers more user-friendly, but that didn’t apply to those who sold them.
