Re: Apple Drops Backward Compatibility for Next MacOS

["Lawson English" <english@primenet.com>]

>>Benefits: Makes Steve Jobs' baby the only thing important at Apple.
>>Drawbacks: Does away with cash cow invented by Steve's archrival, Steve.
>>Risks: None worth mentioning (obviously -we're talking about Steve Jobs
>>baby, and that is all that is important -witness his need to push
>>WebObjects during an interview about becoming a billionaire due to
>>ToyStory, a movie produced by a company that he bought, rather than a
>>company he founded).
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>Actually, people should just take a look at PCs. What are PCs critized
>most for by Macintosh users ? For their ancient, limiting architecture
>(segmentation vs. flat memory, 640K barrier, too few registers, etc.),
>that requires kludge after kludge to squeeze more performance out of
>it. If Apple had stuck to the Aplle IIgs, they would have had to face
>similar limitations.

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.

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"It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that Macs work better than 
PCs... But you'd be a fool not to follow their lead." -Sanjay S Vakil,
graduate student, MIT Aeronautics and Astronautics Dept. -100% Mac
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