Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!agate!ucbvax!LSUVM.BITNET!$CSD211 From: $CSD211@LSUVM.BITNET (Mark Orr) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: new apple IIs... Message-ID: <9011291632.AA12526@apple.com> Date: 29 Nov 90 16:17:00 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 34 |>There's much more money in IBM compats.... | |I'm not sure I agree with your technical statements but I think that you have |a good point economically. When someone has a product that is in great demand |other companies attempt to capitalize on it and get into the act. Even a few |weeks of Econ 103 would show the reasons for not developing a GS clone. |For whatever the reason people haven't exactly been falling over themselves |to buy a GS. Not necessarily true. There is alot of easy money in PC clones. But where do machines like the Amiga and the NeXT fit in. These computers weren't designed by big companies (the Amiga was designed by Jay Miner at a small venture company called Amiga...it was originally named the Lorraine). There was some risk involved in making both computers, absolutely no guarantee that they'd ever see any return on the investment. There's considerably more to life (and a free market economy) than what you'll learn in "Econ 103." You'll find that large profits are not the prime motivating factor in many small businesses (I think that you'll find this true of both the Amiga and the NeXT. Their designers didn't go into business saying "gee, we can make HUGE amounts of money on this"...but rather "hey, this is a great idea...let's see how it flies") I don't recomment build strictly a GS clone anyway...let's build a new computer - a modern computer built with the "values" that made the II a success. //e emulation could definitely be done, and GS emulation could be available as a public domain software program (i.e. like the UNIX //e emulator) ---------------------------------- | MARK A. ORR | | $CSD211 @ LSUVM.SNCC.LSU.EDU | | @ LSUVM.BITNET | ----------------------------------