Re: OS For IIGS

[shack@io.frii.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <3466411E.3E88@library.ucla.edu>,  <pubpc1@library.ucla.edu> wrote:

>> But the problem is that cloners weren't expanding the market any, they were
>> just taking sales away from Apple. It's hard to want to put R&D into something
>> and license it out and have people hurt your profits while making their own
>> and paying a pittance in license fees.
>
>Not expanding the market?  PowerComputing had the fastest PowerPC MacOS
>machines.  Umax addressed the Mac's hardware shortcomings by borrowing
>from the PC design handbook and had a price/performance ratio close to
>that of PC's.  Motorolla had the first CHRP machine.

So show the numbers that prove that this stuff improved the Mac OS market 
share. And by the way, Apple has the fastest box available, at 350 MHz.

>The MacOS platform _needs_ the superior hardware of the clones because
>it is competing against PCs, which Apple can't control.  Killing the
>clones may decrease competition for Apple Macs, but it will be a
>detriment to MacOS.

How do you figure, when every dollar spent on a real Mac goes to the company
who puts out the OS?

>> It's neither here nor there for me since I wouldn't consider buying a clone.
>> None of them have the fit and finish nor the quality of the real thing.
>
>That's got to be the most lame-headed reasoning.  I used to have
>a Laser 128 computer as a portable companion to a IIe.  The IIe
>died long ago, but the Laser keeps on going (although it is now in
>the closet since the GS replaced it).  My experience has been that
>the clones are often _better_ in quality.

You like what you want to and I'll do the same. I don't like any of the
clones because I prefer the real thing.

>I do like Apple's "GS" design, though (which later showed up in
>most Macs: look at their ventilation lines).

My 840av in no way resembles a IIgs. The Mac IIs maybe, but that's about it.

This thread has degenerated to the point of bearing no resemblance to the
subject line so it's time for it to die or migrate to comp.sys.mac.advocacy.
I'll be the first to pledge to stop posting to it.
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Randy Shackelford                                 
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