Re: Apple II seen on PBS

[swjackso@sprynet.com (Steve W. Jackson)]

In article <4qhbpe$oq0@srv13s4.cas.org>, lvirden@cas.org wrote:

> According to Ian Schmidt <irsman@subzero.winternet.com>:
> :The computer industry is in very good shape, or will be once Macintosh, Inc.
> :finally kicks the bucket.  I mean, for less than most of us paid for a basic
> :IIgs system 9-10 years ago, you can now have a decently configured Mac, PC,
> :or low-end workstation with about a zillion times the power and usefulness.
> :That's Progress with a capital P, and Microsoft has nothing to do with it.
> 
> Once Mac 'kicks the bucket' the home computer industry will finally be 
> resigned to the toilet of MSDOS/Intel - not very good shape at all.


Whoever thinks "Macintosh, Inc" will kick the bucket any time in the
foreseeable future doesn't know the future:  RISC.  It's here to stay. 
And the CISC architecture of Intel is dying out.  So, while we may have to
contend with the MSDOS toilet, the Intel side will either go RISC or flush
itself.  Windows NT is not a bad OS, but it has that UGLY Windows face. 
Fortunately, this will change with the pending release of 4.0.  And Apple
is licensing NT for use on its PowerPC (RISC!!!) servers!

= Steve =
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Steve W. Jackson
Montgomery, AL
swjackso@sprynet.com

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