Re: Wozniak vs Jobs

[regnirps@aol.com (Regnirps)]

hattonr@aug.com (Rick Hatton) wrote:
Date: Sat, Mar 28, 1998 6:21 PM
Message-id: <19980328132156336606@ts4-25.aug.com>

>Mitchell Spector <spec@vax2.concordia.ca> wrote:

>>     I'm not one of those people who'll tell you they should have
>> dumped the Mac and tried surviving off the 8-bit Apple II mostly--

>The company DID survive off of the Apple IIe, IIc and IIgs for a long
>while. Revenue form those sources was used to develop the Mac and not
>the II. The IIs coould drive a Lasewriter, but Apple was publicly
>denying it. Jobs wanted the Mac to survive and the II to die. He never
>understood that the Mac wasnt making zillions of money from the start.
>The II was a machine that sold well until the end.

Jobs also killed an Apple II running the ARM (32 bit, 6 MHz at the time) that
outperformed the Mac.