Re: Apple Drops Backward Compatibility for Next MacOS

[GUDATH@EZINFO.VMSMAIL.ETHZ.CH (Henrik 'Ratte' Gudat)]

> 
> According to People Who Should Know, the original PC design was consciously
> based on the Apple II. The design engineers had been given the assignment
> of taking the most successful personal computer design and making it over
> into a business design. They had a large number of Apple II's hidden away
> in the PC design center and were both dissecting some and using some for
> office purposes.

Hehe, this is severely off-topic, but...it remind of a true story. Engineers
from East Germany (early 80ies) had to disassemble a Japanese roboter and
make truckloads of clones. unfortunately, once they had disassembled the entire
machine, they weren't able to get it back to work.

Conclusion: the copy is not always better than the original. Especially 
in the case of PCs and industrial-strength roboters.

- henrik

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