Re: The IBM PC's slavish devotion to the Apple II

["Chuck Morris" <nospam@nospam.net>]

Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message
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An excellent analysis that triggered a few suppressed memories that
supported the points you made.

As for Jobs not being an engineer, certainly he was not.  Jobs flair has
always geared towards marketing, and when the Mac first came out, Jobs
stated vision was that the Mac would become the "information appliance" in
the home - the "toaster" of the computer revolution, so to speak.  Whereas
the Apple II was a machine for hobbyists who are the sort who love to tinker
with the machine's innards, most people don't tinker with the workings of
their toasters.  The Mac was thus designed from the beginning to be a
different type of machine from the Apple II, and it was never intended to be
the sort of machine that it's owners would be modifying.  With the move from
the Apple II to the Mac, Apple did in fact take a different direction from
the open ended architecture that the PC world headed in, and in hindsight,
that may not have been the wisest decision that Apple ever made.