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From: Adam.Frix@p2.f200.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Frix)
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Subject: Re: Time for Apple to move on from Mac (I agree)
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Date: 4 Feb 91 01:57:46 GMT
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231b3679@fergvax.unl.edu (Mike Gleason) writes:

MG> Me too.  If you are programmer, I'll bet you've noticed how
MG> amazingly kludgy everything is getting;  but that's not Apple's
MG> fault, though, they were the ones who pioneered GUIs (yeah, I
MG> know, Xerox...) and I complement them that their foresight was
MG> really pretty good.  But now they know exactly what to do,
MG> perhaps they should put out a new machine, maybe an 88000 based
MG> machine with new ROM built from scratch, and make the
MG> programmer's life a little easier by taking a NeXT interface
MG> builder approach.  Throw in some coprocessors (especially some
MG> graphics chips to make QuickDraw quick) and make them standard
MG> equipment.  Oh, yeah, make it unix to start off!
MG> 
MG> And of course after they finish that, put some people on a Mac
MG> emulator project so not to alienate us ;-)

I have to agree here.  It's time for Apple to stop fixing things up to run on
68000 Pluses and Classics, and start building a new set of machines, including
a brand new OS, from scratch.

--Adam--
 
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