Re: Apple Computer, What Are You Up To?

[Mike Kent <Mkent01@galileo.cris.com>]

Randy Shackelford <shack@onyx.southwind.net> wrote:
> Mike Kent <Mkent01@galileo.cris.com> wrote:

> : But why do you think this is an either/or decision?  What I think
> : Supertimer is trying to say -- and what I know I am -- is that maintaining
> : backwards compatibility allows users to upgrade at their own pace and
> : their own budget, not Apple's.

> While forcing needless complexity on everyone? And, as has been pointed out,
> you can use SCSI cards, USB to serial converters, and ethernet to localtalk
> converters to get the same thing.

Who's talking about forcing needless complexity on everyone here?  I'm
talking about taking my existing peripherals and plugging them into my new
CPU exactly the way they were plugged into my old one.  You're talking
about my having to buy -- at an additional expense -- "SCSI cards, USB to
serial converters, and ethernet to localtalk converters to get the same
thing."  Sounds like Apple is the one forcing needless complexity on
everyone with its lack of upgrade policy.

Mike