Re: Randy, wake up!

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

pubpc1@library.ucla.edu wrote:

: it so pulled the plug.  Now Apple is incorporating a few tid
: bits of the design, such as an ATX form factor MLB and a
: ZIF CPU socket to lower the cost of production of its own
: Macs.

You really think that ZIF socket crap is better than the processor card
setup? Apple isn't advertising the G3 boxes as upgradeable since they
got rid of the cards. As you probably have seen, the PC crowd is getting
Pentium II boxes with swappable cards. Apple took a big step backward here.

: So, Randy, _how_ is it that you say the clones did nothing
: to advance MacOS computing?  BTW, MW/MU had the prototype
: models for testing, so they were not vapor.

They weren't increasing market share, and you can read that in Macworld
if you choose to go to the trouble.

: Also, IBM is selling more Aptiva's present day with the clones
: than it ever sold IBM PC's in its monopolistic days.  Apple
: should see the light.  Let PowerComputing be Compaq, who
: cares?  Apple could have been Microsoft.  But now it is neither.

Allow me to point out the flaw in that logic. IBM was selling PCs exclusively
in the early '80s. This is the late '90s. You've seen the numbers that say
half of all Macs sold since '84 have been sold in the last three years right?
Same principle at work there.

: Same stupidity that led them to killed the superior IIGS!
: (the GS of 1986 was superior in every way to the Mac Plus
: and 6MHz IBM PC/AT of 1986)

Oh boy couldn't have a Scott G post without that tired old line.

I set followups to comp.sys.mac.misc so you can get pummeled by the Mac
crowd if you continue this thread.
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