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From: morris@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: One world, One CPU, One OS
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Date: 14 Apr 90 00:30:28 GMT
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Nf-From: ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!morris    Apr 13 14:32:00 1990


The power of the Macintosh enviornment is that Apple has complete control over
it. They do not have to have others develop system software (ie Microsoft), 
they do not have to have others develope hardware which they would have to
support with changes in OS, and this gives them the freedom to inovate. That
is why Mac users can access more than 640K of memory without headache, why they
can enjoy speed advantages created by using new microprocessor functions
(instruction cacheing, pmmu (soon), other stuff) instead of running the
microprocessor with the same instruction set as the ten year old one, etc. If
Apple would licence out there system, or let others control the hardware or 
software, it would start suffering from the same disease as IBM. Terminal
mediocrity.

Puns intended.