Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cti1!greg From: greg@cti1.UUCP (Greg Fabian) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: New Macintosh Strategy Keywords: Macintosh Message-ID: <307@cti1.UUCP> Date: 30 Oct 90 20:39:37 GMT References: <306@cti1.UUCP> <1990Oct29.195413.7784@phri.nyu.edu> <1054@mdavcr.UUCP> Distribution: comp.sys.mac.hardware Organization: Comprehensive Technologies Int., Arlington VA Lines: 44 Well folks, looks like I got some good responses from that last posting and learned a few things too (like how to really spell NuBus and that the Classic has an SE type motherboard). As for the Ford Escort analogy, even with an 8 cylinder engine the Escort would *still* be a crippled car (but that's a topic of discussion for another news group). Many car analogies don't count with computers anyway because automotive technology is extremely backwards compatible - a '57 Chevy can be driven on the same street as a Ferrarri F-40. Can you you run the latest version of Word on a vintage '84 Mac with the original 128K RAM and perform useful work on it? You may not need it next week or next year, but you will at some time in the near future need VM. Programs are getting bigger all the time and it makes life a heck of a lot easier if you're a programmer and you don't have to worry about overlaying (like the old PDP-11 I used to work on). Believe me, those programmers will start taking advantage of VM when it's available and before long you'll be sending money to Apple and poppin' new chips in your Mac. I have a Mac SE and a Compaq 386/20e (which I am using to write this response). I use the Mac, Windows 3.0 (very pretty colors) and, when I'm logged onto the Unix box, X windows (and, while I'm at it, there's only one mouse button on the Mac). When I get bored with Unix, I can cu over to the MicroVAX and play with VMS, although we don't have a GUI for the VAX yet. The only big player I don't have access to is MVS (we use it here but I'm really not interested in it anyway). Sure windows sucks up some horsepower on the Compaq, but Excel runs faster on the Compaq without the coprocessor chip than it does on the SE with a Dove board (or is it bar?). -- Greg Fabian ////////////////////////////////////|\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ CTI (703) 685-5437 | 2121 Crystal Drive | Life is a conspiracy of coincidences Suite 103 | - Me Arlington, DC 22202 greg@cti.com | \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\|////////////////////////////////////