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From: dorourke@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (David M. O'Rourke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Hey Apple Mac engineers, I want an answerO!!
Keywords: DMA, coprocessing, improvements
Message-ID: <13187@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 3 Aug 89 22:42:20 GMT
References: <577@studsys.mu.edu>
Reply-To: dorourke@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (David M. O'Rourke)
Organization: Cal Poly State University -- San Luis Obispo
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stevej@studsys.mu.edu (jovanovic) writes:
  [some stuff about what Apple should do.]

  What a Jerk!!!

  You know people are always putting down Apple for not doing the right thing.
But you know they are nearly a 4 billion dollar company, and have
consistantly offered one the finest personal computers on the Market.  
Regardless of what Marketing people might think, people just don't throw
money at you because you have slick image, at some point that image has
to produce.  Apple makes money because their products do a pretty good job
of living up to the Image that their marketing department puts forth.

  The Amiga's a nice machine, but it just isn't up to the caliper of the
Macintosh when it comes to overall concept.  The OS may be multi-tasking,
and the hardware maybe nice, but I've yet to see it do anything better than
the mac besides games.  For better or for worse the Mac community has the
developer community behind it, and as long as that continues the software
will get done on the Mac first and other platforms afterwards.  Talk with
any Amiga owner who isn't religous, and they'll tell you the Amiga has it's
fair share of short commings as well.  EVERY COMPUTER DOES!!!

  IMHO OS/2 & presentation manager are fast, but given the hardware that
they're running on top of they should be a lot faster.  One of IBM ps 2's
running a full blown OS config. and presentation manger feels like your
running a Mac plus, that says a lot for the plus and not very much for
the ps 2.

  Apple doesn't have to answer to this joker or anyone else.  The market
place will dictate what Apple does and how they do it.  I'm not even
sure this guy completly understand's DMA and all the ramifications of the
different design decisions/choices avalible to Apple.  I'd love to see this
joker design Apple's next machine and then yell at them because
what he designed now doesn't run his favority software package.

Prototypes are easy, products are much more difficult.

And the Mac community is notoriously picky when it comes to products.

  As far as Apple sticking with the "standard" 10 mhz Nu-bus, this is good
for once.  I never thought I'd hear someone complain because the Macintosh
was "standard" :-)

  When you up the clock rate on a machine you up the requirments for all the
support hardware and well.  More expensive memory, more expensive I/O devices
ect...  People already complain about the price of mac's, I don't think that
upping the clock rate and all of the associated changes that go along with
it would lower that price point any.

  Apple may make mistakes.  But basicly people do the best they can, and
Apple like any other company is made up of people.  But to be quite honest
with you I can't think of a personal computer on the market that I'd rather
have, and I thank the people at Apple for doing the best they can to keep
the best computer on the market.  If you really want you're welcome to buy
an Amiga, PS/2, NeXT or whatever, but you must have bought the Mac for some
reason over the other computers, so quit your whining and try to remember
why you bought the Mac in the first place.  It was because you felt it was
the best computer for your needs, don't try and tell me that behind all of
the Amiga's limited techincal gadget's that they don't wish of a developer
community as healthy as the Mac's, or wish for as much software as the mac
has.

  I do wish for faster hardware, but then again everyone does, and always
will.  Apple, IBM, NeXT, SUN, HP or anyone else will never build
a computer fast enough for me.  And given that realization, I think Apple
and it's strong developer community will do just fine for a long time to
come.

  Just my $0.02 worth.  I speak for no one but myself.
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