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From: gsm@gsm001.uucp (Geoffrey S. Mendelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: IBM been goowy for along tyme
Message-ID: <1991Feb16.012535.12622@gsm001.uucp>
Date: 16 Feb 91 01:25:35 GMT
References: <1991Feb9.035631.15285@gsm001.uucp> <1991Feb9.212956.12871@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1991Feb10.023034.858@gsm001.uucp> <1991Feb15.220523.24037@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
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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.
>>-- 
>*----
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>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.


I did not defend it. I no longer have the original post, would you please email 
it to me if you have it.  I believe that you are taking me out of context.
What I meant, and obviously I was not completely clear, is that they were
shortsighted. They knew about slots (having put them in apple II's).

My point was that when the MAC was first designed, the designers were so
shortsighted as to feel that 128k was all anyone would ever need. They cannot
claim ignorance as an excuse.

Geoff.
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