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From: cromwell@acsu.buffalo.edu (mark j cromwell)
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Subject: Re: A low blow from Apple
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Date: 12 Sep 90 18:29:50 GMT
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In article <44737@apple.Apple.COM> mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage) writes:
>Whether that's right or not is a totally separate discussion, but you seem
>obsessed with the idea that Apple should treat the Apple II exactly like it
>treats the Macintosh - if one gets print ads, the other should; if one gets
>new CPUs, the other should; etc.

    Any line of computers that doesn't have a new CPU in 4 years in dead
or nearly so. The PDP-11 series has had a new CPU in the last 4 years.
The Apple hasn't. Apple's Apple II "plan" has fermented anger among it's
user base. It is very well deserved anger.


				- Mark Cromwell