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From: jerry@truevision.com (Jerry Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Important Petition/Technology
Message-ID: <1991Apr16.143014.5664@truevision.com>
Date: 16 Apr 91 14:30:14 GMT
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Organization: Truevision Inc., Indianapolis, IN
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In article <1991Apr11.034720.26091@uncecs.edu> urjlew@uncecs.edu (Rostyk Lewyckyj) writes:
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>On the surface this idea sounds very attractive.
>However since the radio spectrum is a very scarce resource,
>so scarce that many allocations are decided by a world wide
>conference held every 8-10 years, and are signed by governments
>as international treaties, the question arises.
>Whose radio spectrum allocation is Apple proposing to take away
>for this commercial product that it wants to sell?
>Will it be the CB radio bands?
>Will it be marine bands?
>Will it be a piece of some current commercial band allocation?
>Perhaps some frequencies now allocated to cellular telephones?
>Perhaps some part of the TV radio spectrum? How about taking 2
>or 3 UHF channels, which at 6MHZ apiece allows for 12-18MHZ.
>This 18 MHZ could be divided into many many, (3600) 5KHZ channels.
>And after all who would miss 3 TV channels.
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>  Reply-To:  Rostyslaw Jarema Lewyckyj
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>       tel.  (919)-962-6501


Sounds to me like Apple has a product they want to make so they can dominate
an important flow of information and put a choke hold on it so we will all
have to pay them a lot of money to use it and then the Japenese will come in
with improvements on it because Apple was charging outrageous prices for some
lame-o hardware and then the Japenese will control the radio computer network
and start broadcasting advertisements into our computers for cars and TV's and
we will all be brainwashed and submit to their control.  But I like the idea.
-- 
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