Re: Inventor

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"Ian Gregory" <Ian-news@gregory30.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:

>I assume that Steve Jobs was one of the (two?) inventers of the Apple II. So
>who was the other and where is he now???

Hi, Steve Wozniak was THE inventor of the Apple II.  Jobs
was his buddy and didn't do a bit of engineering.  Instead,
he had a knack for business.

I have no doubt that without Jobs, Apple Computers would
ever have came to be.  However, it is a fact that Jobs
contributed NOTHING to the hardware itself.

In fact, it kind of irked him that the Apple II was not his
invention.  It irked him so much that he killed off the
Apple II.

Think about it: originally there was the IBM PC and the
Apple II.  Today, there is the Pentium and PowerMac.
Notice that the Pentium is capable of running the same
programs that the 8088 ran (and that's WITHOUT
an emulator).  The PowerMac, meanwhile, has inherited
nothing from the Apple II.

That's because in around 1984, Steve Jobs, in a coup
d'etat pulled most of the engineering and advertising
from the Apple II to HIS idea (but again, not his direct
engineering), the Mac.

If it were not for Steve Jobs, the Mac would probably
have not been a break from the Apple II.  Like the
8088 to the Pentium, the Apple II would probably have
continued to evolve.

By the way, apparently Jobs and Woz are no longer
on speaking terms.  Jobs witheld profits from initial
Apple I sales and Woz found out this much later on.