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From: grover@brahmand.Eng.Sun.COM (Vinod Grover)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Sun's Competitive Strategy (Was: Re: P1754
Message-ID: <3860@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 3 Dec 90 18:51:30 GMT
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In article <2760@cirrusl.UUCP> dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>In <1990Dec2.014554.3491@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
>philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick) writes:
>
>>Maybe they've learnt at last. The new Classic costs $750 at the Stanford
>>Bookstore, and the waiting list for them is 2 months long.
>
>Nope.  "Classic" here means "obsolete".  In this day and age of 28-MIPS
>machines, what Apple does with an 8 MHz 68000 is utterly irrelevant.

According to a recent WSJ article, the demand for the "utterly irrelevant"
Mac Classic has been so high that Apple is having trouble meeting it. 

Vinod Grover


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