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From: wwtaroli@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Bill Taroli)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: '040 Mac
Message-ID: <1990Sep30.153617.3111@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Date: 30 Sep 90 15:36:17 GMT
References: <8726@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> <1990Sep29.111044.1122@rodan.acs.syr.edu> <8745@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
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In article <8745@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> epan@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Eric C. Pan) writes:
> I am sorry to point out that whatever the new   '040 will be... It will not be
> "a computer for everybody"... I am sorry, but I  can't imagine everybody
> having either an '040 machine or a i486, i960 machine   in the next 2
> years....

I agree that we're not going to see fx's on every desk in the short term, but
don't appologize for Apple's lack of support for a general purpose machine. We
saw the Mac move from general purpose to much-much too specific. Now, I'm no
marketing wizard, but if you try to introduce TOO many specific models, you're
only going to create problems for yourself. 

The one specific feature discussed in my reply was slots. Slots are a GREAT way
to provide a level of generality to a system. As had been evidenced by not
only Macs but much older systems as well, slots can add an order of usefulness
to a computer as long as someone doesn't pay through the nose to get them.

I think, also, that Apple, in its attempts to get more and more specific 
machines our in a short period of time, is allowing much needed features to 
slip through the cracks in order to get them out ASAP (especially after the
deadlines have been moved back a dozen times). Perhaps a reorg should occur at
Apple that REDUCES the amount of upper management so that the engineering and
useful marketing types can take the reigns of what is a declining company, IMHO.

Regards,

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