Randy, wake up!

[pubpc1@library.ucla.edu]

Randy, I just looked at the January issue of MacWorld/MacUser.
According to them, the Motorolla and PowerComputing units that
were on the roll were faster than Apple's G3.  In fact, MW/MU
claims that Apple pulled the plug because these hardware were
_too good_.  Second, the say that Motorolla advanced PowerPC
computing light years by finishing the CHRP, but Apple feared
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.

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.

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.

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)

-Scott G.