Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!sun!concertina!fiddler From: fiddler%concertina@Sun.COM (Steve Hix) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Apple's committment to the // line Message-ID: <126532@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Date: 19 Oct 89 23:38:26 GMT References: <8910181005.AA17718@trout.nosc.mil> Sender: news@sun.Eng.Sun.COM Lines: 29 In article <8910181005.AA17718@trout.nosc.mil>, sschneider@pro-exchange.cts.com (The RainForest BBS) writes: > Comment to message from: concertina!fiddler@sun.com (Steve Hix) > > Steve... > Nice to see your comments. I even agree with most of them. I wasn't > aware of the Mac IIci (I don't get around much any more) so my comment was > more of a "shot in the dark". > > BTW... I thought =ALL= the pioneers were out in the woods weaving cloth. I > didn't know any had stayed around. Personally I kept holding out for Woz to > actually come back with a new idea (not neccessarily with Apple, mind you) > instead of Jobs. Afterall, history always said it was Woz's brains and Job's > business sense that make early Apple success... From the point of view of those of us who were there ('79-'85), it was Woz's smarts, Jobs' evangelistic fervor, and the business sense of guys like Mike Markkula and Mike Scott. The Jobs of today is *not* the Jobs of then. (I still refuse to even consider buying a NeXT...some of us have some very bitter memories.) A lot of the pioneers, btw, are still writing code and wiring prototypes at Apple. And Sun. And RasterOps. And ... ------------ "...I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing: and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress, while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization." - Petronius Arbiter, 210 B.C.