Re: "The Apple II is DEAD" - Long Live the Apple II

[colinj@css.itd.umich.edu (Colin E. Johnson)]

In article <2d2t7j$s0d@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>,
Jawaid Bazyar <bazyar@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>ag471@yfn.ysu.edu (Eric S. Ford) writes:
>>Perhaps it's only "doom-smithing", but the computer industry strongly
>>resembles the Video Recorder industry situation of the early and mid 80's
>>with Apple (in particular the Mac) playing the role of the Sony BetaMax
>>and MS-DOS that of the VHS.  Sony did not perish, but they now sell VHS
>
>  A major flaw in this anaology is that there is software ("Beta titles")
>that are simply not available on VHS (er, the PC platform). This is changing,
>but there's a lot of software that's available for only one major platform.

	And the sad truth is that that platform is the PC. Unfortunately the
trend that I am seeing more and more is companies porting their "Mac" 
software to the DOS/Windoze world. 

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