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From: kdq@demott.COM (Kevin D. Quitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Apple's New Direction
Message-ID: <537@demott.COM>
Date: 6 Sep 90 01:13:20 GMT
References: <1990Sep5.224018.3233@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>
Reply-To: kdq@demott.COM (Kevin D. Quitt)
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In article <1990Sep5.224018.3233@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> anthonjw@clutx.clarkson.edu (Jason W. Anthony,116 Congdon,,2683915) writes:
>One thing I like about Apple is that they push new technology.

    Say what? This is the apple that released a *15* MHz Mac II when
everyone else was pushing 25 and 33? Apple's computers have lousy
performance compared to almost any other system. 

    Worse than the CPU managing the disk, is its managing the floppy!
The NUBUS spec for the II says that the bus can't be used for real-time
transfers because the CPU locks the bus for up to 200ms (yes,
milli-seconds) at a time when dealing with the floppy.  (A 10MHz bus, no
less). 

    Apple's pushed a lot of things, but *never* technology.
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