> Another reason to develop software for the Mac: it understands 
> associations without any of that filename-extension nonsense -- and it's 
> easy for developers to set it all up! Three cheers for Apple!

Agreed.  Apple has traditionally approached things from the point of
view of "how can this machine make life easier & more fun for its
users?"  The developers of some "other" systems don't seem to be able to
break out of the box of doing things in a constrained way--they seem
perfectly happy to let the computer remain an arcane machine.  Maybe it
makes them feel special to exclude people from their priesthood of
esoteric knowledge; maybe they just have no imagination.  At any rate,
the thing I like about Apple is that they (usually) have a long-term
vision of the computer as a culture-altering and people-empowering
device.  I just hope that future historians will recognize the role
they've played in making that a reality.

- Rick