Re: PC or Mac?

["Will Strutts" <wrstrutts1@home.com>]

"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message
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> British computer scientist Byian Randell once said (and perhaps
> he was paraphrasing someone else) that "a philosophy of evolution
> not revolution is, in fact, a philosophy of fewer but bloodier
revolutions."
> And so it is.  As evolutionary development, constrained by backward
> compatibility, falls further and further short of the full capability that
> technology can deliver, eventually a major revolution--a paradigm
> shift, if you will--ensues, which pays little or no homage to the past,
> but rushes beyond it into the future.
>
Isn't that what Apple did first with the Mac and then later with the iMac?
The first was switch to a new paradigm of GUI based computing and the
next was obsoleting a lot of old technology such as a floppy drive.

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