Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Path: utzoo!utgpu!utstat!philip
From: philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough)
Subject: Re: The GS Axe is Not Falling
Message-ID: <1991Apr18.221550.2661@utstat.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Statistics
References: <15744@smoke. <410@alchemy.UUCP> <1991Apr18.171854.13367@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1991 22:15:50 GMT

In article <1991Apr18.171854.13367@nntp-server.caltech.edu> toddpw@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel) writes:

[quotes an ongoing discussion]

>Harry, you're thinking like an MBA. Computers can do more than suckle from
>hard disks if people would get smart and put REAL utilities in ROM

Not to break in here, but my HP Integral( which HP discontinued when they
decided to become high class clone makers-in their micro division- and
deengineered all their neat computers) had Unix V in ROM, a very nice
technical Basic in Rom( C was in ROM),etc...It had an inkjet printer,
windowing interface, mouse, CLI,etc...This was a computer made in 1985.
The MBA rulers of the US decided that since it couldn't run 1-2-3 (it
used 710k 3.5" floppies) it was of no use. I think you're hoping for too
much to expect anything of interest coming out of the current crop of
companies. They are all too busy trying to outspeadsheet themselves.

Philip McDunnough
philip@utstat.utoronto.ca
[my opinions,etc...]