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Re: Apple Drops Backward Compatibility for Next MacOS
- Subject: Re: Apple Drops Backward Compatibility for Next MacOS
- From: nevin@CS.Arizona.EDU (Nevin ":-]" Liber)
- Date: 1996/10/31
- Followup-to: comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.sys.apple2
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.be, comp.sys.mac.advocacy, comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: University of Arizona CS Department, Tucson "It's A *DRY* Heat!" Arizona
- References: <nevin-ya023180002810961239520001@192.12.69.9> <AE9AD8C6-8CD03@198.68.42.193> <55asnc$1n4o@uni.library.ucla.edu>
In article <55asnc$1n4o@uni.library.ucla.edu>, pubpc1@library.ucla.edu wrote:
> That's what I mean. In 1986, the Mac was selling very badly. Apple was
> surviving only based on Apple II sales. But Steve Jobs kept pushing the
> Mac, against all business reason. Even after the superior IIGS came out.
Except that Steve Jobs quit Apple in May 1985 (source:
<http://www.apple-history.pair.com/>). It sounds like you are doing a bit
of revisionist history.
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<http://www.cs.arizona.edu/people/nevin/>