Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!bionet!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: 68040 for the Mac? Message-ID: <1991Feb16.020056.11742@NCoast.ORG> Date: 16 Feb 91 02:00:56 GMT References: <1991Feb9.194049.19192@NCoast.ORG> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR) Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc Organization: North Coast Public Access Un*x (ncoast) Lines: 31 As quoted from by melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger): +--------------- | You obviously don't have anything to contribute. Apple didn't have a | $1000 computer until 1990 and they managed to sell over 4 million | machines. +--------------- Look, friend. Advertizers have done a very, very good job of convincing everyone in the U.S. that everyone needs an all-singing, all-dancing mega- computer just to balance their checkbooks. THAT is what p*sses me off. And then you NeXT types come in and perpetuate the myth. Most people do NOT really need NeXTs, or IIfx's. In fact, most people don't need 386 boxes, but most people go out and get them (to run DOS, which doesn't even *use* the 386's capabilities except in the most minimal ways (assuming QEMM, 386^MAX, Windows 3.0, or etc.)!) anyway. Because everyone has been trained to jump through their hoops and go buy the biggest, fastest, most expensive thing they can regardless of whether they need it or not. Your persistent attempts to pull this wool over all our eyes set me off. I may be a particularly extreme example, but that doesn't mean I'm the ONLY example. Use some sense: you have, perhaps, heard of bell curves? Just because I'm at the far side doesn't mean that the curve looks like a huge, narrow spike and me alone way off to one side. ++Brandon -- Me: Brandon S. Allbery VHF/UHF: KB8JRR on 220, 2m, 440 Internet: allbery@NCoast.ORG Packet: KB8JRR @ WA8BXN America OnLine: KB8JRR AMPR: KB8JRR.AmPR.ORG [44.70.4.88] uunet!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery Delphi: ALLBERY