Re: I appologize for confusing Apple with Mac

[ralphp@gcstation.net (Ralph Wade Phillips)]

Hi, Tilghman!

In article <515r0k$fm1@news.vanderbilt.edu>, lesherjt@vuse.vanderbilt.edu
(Tilghman Lesher) wrote:

> Randy Shackelford (shack@deimos.frii.com) wrote:
> : In article <510uoe$76v@usenet10.interramp.com>,

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> And consider that other computer companies, i.e. Microsoft, are only now
> discontinuing product support (after sales have long since dwindled to
> $0), Apple simply isn't at the top of the heap.  It's made some VERY BAD
> marketing decisions which make IBM's decision to hand off the OS seem
> TRIVIAL.

        Eh.  Not to justify Apple dropping the Apple // family, but SCO
and Microsoft have BOTH dropped support WAY before the $0 point was
reached.

        Example:  Windows 3.1.  What new is coming from Microsoft for Win
3.1?  Nada.  How about sales?  It STILL sells $ for $ matched with Win95
...

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> 
> "Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it."  Five years down the
> road, Apple will probably discontinue support for the 68000 processor
> machines.  HAL 9000 says, "Are you sure you're making the right decision?"

        Read press releases.  MacOS 8 will NOT support 68K machines. 
7.5.4 (due out this month) will be the last to support a 68000 (aka
"Macintosh Plus" in Apple-ese) based computer.

        Five years?  Nope, more like next year.

        Does that make your point?  Nope.  Sooner or later, ALL systems
will be dropped.  It's a matter of when does it quit paying enough to be
worth it.  I agree, Apple's decision to drop the Apple // line was
premature.  But, IT WOULD HAVE TO BE DROPPED SOONER OR LATER.  So with 68K
support for the Macintosh family.  So it is, so it shall be.

        Or would you rather that they make software for your IIgs run on a
4K Apple ][ with Integer BASIC?  They dropped support for THAT LONG before
the IIgs was dropped ...

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        RwP

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