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From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Time for Apple to move on from Mac (I agree)
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Date: 5 Feb 91 17:30:25 GMT
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In article <143454.27AE5944@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> Adam.Frix@p2.f200.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Frix) writes:
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>231b3679@fergvax.unl.edu (Mike Gleason) writes:
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>MG> Me too.  If you are programmer, I'll bet you've noticed how
>MG> amazingly kludgy everything is getting... But now they know
>MG> 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...  Oh, yeah, make it unix to start off!

>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.

Brand new OS?  That's not exactly what he said.  Amazing that someone
who finds the Mac OS "amazingly kludgy" wants *UNIX* to start off.
(Let's get rid of those kudgy word processors and port vi, too! :-)

An "interface-build approach" is available on the Mac, using
third-party products such as Prototyper and AppMaker. I have
also heard from reliable sources that Apple did create an
88000-based Macintosh in the lab, but has no plans to release
the machine.