Re: Re. Sun-Apple

[rubywand@aol.com (RUBYWAND)]

In article <4epbd9$g4i@nnrp1.news.primenet.com>, johnlb@primenet.com (John
Bowling) writes:

>
>They may be planning to put the Mac OS on a Sun workstation, but if that 
>is the exclusive intent, so that they don't produce Macs anymore, they 
>need to be prepared to produce a very cheap workstation in large
quantities.
>
>While Sun has done well in the workstation market, that area is 
>impossibly overpriced for anyone to buy them as a home computer.  Not 
>producing a Mac priced computer will guarantee that the IBM system 
>becomes the ONLY affordable home computer (and a terrible one at that).
>

    The PC, in fact, IS the only affordable home computer. All of this was
pretty much decided back in 1989. When Apple failed to deliver either a
major IIgs upgrade or a competively priced Mac, it left the field to the
PC clone makers. Intel, Microsoft, and the clone makers set the standards.
The massive user base forces software entertainment and productivity
vendors to comply.

    Cheapo '486 machines have already squashed Mac. Today, the Pentiums
are merely engaged in a mop-up operation.



    


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