Re: Wozniak vs Jobs

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"Greg J. Buchner" <buchner@freenet.msp.mn.us> wrote:

>Reality check here....
>
>First of all, AE and Zip Technologies (or MTCA or whatever they became)
>would have been ordering a 1000 or maybe 10,000 at a time.
>
>Apple, as a large manufacturing company, at that time would only order
>out of a suppliers stock, and for Apple to do that, WDC would have had
>to have a stock in excess of a quarter of a million.  If they didn't
>have that, Apple couldn't guarantee having enough chips for a production
>run.
>
>For Apple to have made a faster GS, WDC would have had to have produced
>a large number of faster 65816's, they could't have gotten by on the
>handful that Mensch had at that infamous meeting.

That may have been so and that may have not been so.  There is logic
in either side of the argument.  WDC said they could produce the chips
in sufficient quantities.  Apple said they could not produce in sufficient
quantities.  Believing WDC's side is no less valid than believing Apple's
and Apple has a history of stunting the II....