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From: ds4a@dalton.acc.Virginia.EDU (Dale Southard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: IBM been goowy for along tyme
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Date: 15 Feb 91 23:51:11 GMT
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|gsm@gsm001.uucp (Geoffrey S. Mendelson) writes:
|>Remember that Steve and Steve did not see any need for more than 128k on the
|>MAC.  They knew about expansion slots.  They just could not conceive that 
|>"the rest of us" would want them.
|>-- 
|*----
|
|What I fail to understand is why you feel compelled to defend this
|short-sightedness.  Every other computer expert in the world understood
|the need.
|--
|        Mike Berger
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Mike, with all due respect, I really doubt that "Every other computer expert
in the world" would agree with that.  Let's remember the time frame of which
we are speaking: My Apple ][+ was still relativly state of the art (48 K
with a floppy).  Fact is, the off the shelf mac had just about everything
that 95% of the computer hobbists were putting in the slots of their S-100
systems (which DID still exist, I have proof).

But we all have our gremlins to live with. The ][gs was an attempt to 
bring the apple ][ design into the 90s (maybe into the 80s). MS-DOS is 
STILL trying to get around the 640K limit (before we laugh, mac users will
probably be in the same boat with the 13 Meg limit in a few years).  The
Mac II line addressed the slot (no pun intended) problem.  Windows 3 
is addressing the IBMs interface problems. etc etc

Nothing is perfect and most  operating systems will be FOREVER chained to
their min. configurations or first incarnations. I have no problems with
the "limitations" of my SE/30 and its one slot -- If I did I would buy
somthing with slots. As it is, I haveplenty of unused ports & SCSI addresses
left.



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