Re: Jobs returns to Apple

[skaratso@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Stavros Robert Karatsoridis)]

Paul Creager (wily@svpal.svpal.org) wrote:
: Brian Hammack (brian.hammack@rook.wa.com) wrote:
: : You have Steve confused with John Sculley.  Apple ousted Steve because
: : they wanted John's direction, and Steve afterall was a hardass.  Steve
: : *created* the Apple II and the Mac -- and in the physical sense at that.

: Jobs _killed_ the Apple II.  His push for the Mac let the Apple //e 
: development languish, even though it's what buttered his bread.  And he 
: certainly didn't create the Apple II, other than marketing ideas like the 
: rainbow logo, etc.

Jobs did NOT create the rainbow logo. It was designed by a firm called
Regis McKinna, I believe.


: In retrospect, Sculley did give us the //c, //c+ and IIGS, not to mention 
: System 6.0.1.  Helluva lot more than Jobs gave us.  Of course, they both 
: look like Saints compared to Spindler.  :)
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