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Re: Apple Drops Backward Compatibility for Next MacOS
- Subject: Re: Apple Drops Backward Compatibility for Next MacOS
- From: shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford)
- Date: 1996/11/01
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.be, comp.sys.mac.advocacy, comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: Front Range Internet, Inc, Fort Collins, Colorado
- References: <nevin-ya023180002810961239520001@192.12.69.9> <AE9AD8C6-8CD03@198.68.42.193> <55asnc$1n4o@uni.library.ucla.edu>
In article <55asnc$1n4o@uni.library.ucla.edu>,
<pubpc1@library.ucla.edu> wrote:
>That's what I mean. In 1986, the Mac was selling very badly. Apple was
>surviving only based on Apple II sales. But Steve Jobs kept pushing the
>Mac, against all business reason. Even after the superior IIGS came out.
>
>After they got rid of Jobs, at least the Mac improved...
Steve Jobs wasn't doing diddly at Apple in '86. He was booted in the autumn of
'85, before the Plus came out.
--
Randy Shackelford
shack@frii.com