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From: awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels)
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Subject: Re: SE/30 -> 32 bit clean ROMS?
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Date: 17 Oct 90 19:55:27 GMT
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In article <10744@goofy.Apple.COM> rubin@Apple.COM (Owen R. Rubin) writes:

>As I read these comments I often wonder if you people also complain to 
>BMW and Chevrolet and Ford (etc) about upgrades to your cars?

This analogy keeps coming up, and it is completely non-sequitor.  If those auto
companies offered upgrades on some cars and not others, I could understand why
the analogy holds.  In this case, computers have been very commonly designed
as upgradable.  It them becomes annoying when new features are released that 
can't easily be retrofited to older machines.

Sometimes this is due to architecture, but sometimes it is just manufacturer-
designed obsolescence.