Re: Apple, Jobs, and the irony of it

[Eric Smith <eric-no-spam-for-me@brouhaha.com>]

I wrote:
> Wrong.  DEC offered 64-bit Alpha-based personal computers starting
> around 1992 or 1993.  The Multia was one example.

Richard Kilpatrick <richard@dmc12.demon.co.uk> writes:
> Oddly enough, I've used the Multia as an example as to why Apple's
> tech wasn't new. But it was a workstation. It ran NT, or something
> horrid,

It ran NT, but it was most certainly NOT a workstation in the conventional
sense of that work.  It was marketed as a personal computer (or, in some
cases, as a thin client).

> and you couldn't exactly walk into Best Buy or Futureshop and
> buy one...

A lot of PC companies have made a lot of PC models that you couldn't buy
at Best Buy.  That doesn't make them workstations.