Re: GS Emulator

[nraymond@k12.ucs.umass.edu (Nathan Raymond (Phillips Academy 94))]

In a previous article, kermit@pro-ahamt.mn.org (Fred Gotfredson) says:

>nraymond@k12.ucs.umass.edu (Nathan Raymond (Phillips Academy 94)) writes:
>
>>
>>In a previous article, grover@emunix.emich.edu (Grover Thomas) says:
>>
>>>In article <1994Jul12.062658.15355@pro-ren.cts.com>,
>>>Edward Floden <edward@pro-ren.cts.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>Y'know, almost four months have passed since the Power Macintosh
>>>>introduction, and Apple hasn't discontinued a model or announced a new one!
>>>>Strange... :)
>>>
>>>     Heh heh, but not to worry.  Rumor is that Apple plans to release
>>>5 new PowerPC models in January.  So the shelf life seems to have increased
>>>from 6 months to about 10 months.
>>
>>Well, I can remember a time (around 1990) when all the Mac magazine writers
>>were complaining about how Apple just wasn't keeping up and how long it took
>>Apple to come out with a new computer with new technology.  I believe it was
>>John C. Dvorak (or was it Guy Kawasaki?) who compared when a new Mac was
>>released (once a year) to when Sony comes out with a new walkman (once a
>>month).  So Apple picks up the pace and ironically people complain.
>
>So what you are saying is that in 1990, Sculley was tabbing thru his MacUser
>magazine or whatever, and some ugly guy said that Macs should be more like 
>walkmans, so he said, "Gosh, he's right.  If we keep this slow pace up, then 
>Sony will buy us out or something!"...? I have a Discman from 1991 and It 
>plays all the latest CD titles, as fast as all the new discmans play them...  
>Also, in about 4 years when I want to buy a new piece of music, I won't have
>to go out and buy a PowerDiscman or anything...

I just think its kind of funny, since back then nobody imaged the Apple of
today, and since at no point in time has anybody been able to predict with
any reliabilty what the "future Apple" from that perspective at that time
will be, I feel that right now we can't with any reliability predict how
Apple is going to change no matter how sure things look, and I just think
that is interesting.  I guess I have a kind of oblique mind.

nathan
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