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Re: ANN: Retiring from A2 world - Good Bye All!
Paul Schlyter wrote:
And why has the Mac cutting-edge hardware while the Apple II didn't?
Well, the Mac - which is not a real Mac anymore, it's a Unix box - does
not have cutting edge hardware at all.
Let's face it, it does not give us any real technical innovation, things
that the pc absolutely cannot do, like the original Lisa did back then.
It probably gives us more refinement and more 'class', but cutting edge,
no. It's a good Unix machine with average hardware now.
machine, while the Apple II was Steve Wozniak's machine, and Jobs
remained at Apple Computer much longer than Wozniak -- I think there
you'll find a large part of the reason why the Apple II hardware was
allowed to grow obsolete instead of being developed further.
Naah. Let's face it, the Apple II was a 6502 machine and was getting out
of date by that time, no matter what. The Lisa/Mac started out with
completely new and much faster hardware to begin with, didn't need to be
backward compatible either (although that would've been nice ;), so it's
really no comparison.
Interestingly, the Apple II "spirit" was, during the late 80's and
the 90's, carried on -- by the IBM PC family of computers!
I'm afraid the Apple II spirit was in the late 80's and early 90's
embodied by something called the IIGS, which was very much on sale back
then. IBM did nick some AII ideas though, sure...
same thing with the Mac. Had he done so, then the Mac could have
been a mainstream computer today, instead of a niche computer. But
then the Mac would have been an evolved Apple II of course....
Well, you could say that was kinda tried with the Mac II (an 'Open Mac'
with slots to tinker), but by then the Mac was already in a niche - the
"too expensive" niche, I might add.
Regards, Rudy (Mac/Lisa/IIGS owner)