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From: rsfinn@athena.mit.edu (Russell S. Finn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: New Macintosh Strategy
Keywords: Macintosh
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Date: 31 Oct 90 23:37:21 GMT
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In article <1055@mdavcr.UUCP>, ewm@mdavcr.UUCP (Eric W. Mitchell) writes:
|> I like this analogy better:
|> 
|> 	Would you consider a Ford Escort "crippled" if you couldn't
|> 	have more than one person in it at a time?
|> 
|> 	(You can still get there, but it is a lot less convenient)

OK, I recognize that automobile analogies are imprecise, and I promise to stop.
Eventually.  (I also promise to stop using a Ford Escort as an analogy for an
automobile.  :-)

Having said that:  an inexpensive motor vehicle that only carries one person at
a time is called a "motorcycle", and though it does have its own set of
drawbacks, they sell an awful lot of them.  Would you consider a motorcycle
"crippled" with respect to a regular passenger car?

Getting back to the original issue, which is that an LC is "crippled" because
it has no PMMU:  well, neither does my Plus, which I've gotten a lot of use out
of; furthermore, I understand I can buy a board from a third party which *will*
allow me to put a PMMU in.  (I'm getting a IIsi anyway, because I want Color
QuickDraw too -- greedy, I know...)  

Folks, you can't have it both ways -- if there are to be cheaper Macs, they're going to have to cut back on some features; otherwise, the people who bought the more expensive and more powerful machines would start complaining.  (It's always *something*...)  I read a review of the IIsi which griped about "no new technological innovations."  To me, Color QuickDraw at a price I can afford is a technological innovation.

-- Russ
rsfinn@{athena,lcs}.mit.edu