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From: dboyes@brazos.rice.edu (David Boyes)
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Subject: Re: Keyboards (was Re: Low End NeXTs)
Message-ID: <1991Apr18.173316.27524@rice.edu>
Date: 18 Apr 91 17:33:16 GMT
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In article <1991Apr12.051725.3201@ccu.umanitoba.ca> tilley@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Richard Tilley) writes:

>>Why not have future NeXTs come with ADB.  Apple seems much more willing to
>>license these technologies and it would open up a wide realm of input devices
>>to the NeXT.

Two simple arguments against the Apple Desktop Bus:

1) Would *you* want to put a critical feature of your machine --
   the interconnection of peripherals, especially important ones
   like the keyboard and pointing device -- under the control of
   a *another* company, especially a company that tends to make
   rapid, incompatible changes to hardware and software to force
   upgrades? 

2) Would you want to pay license fees for a technology to a
   company that you founded and got forced out of? 

I think not.



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David Boyes       |The three most dangerous things in the world:
dboyes@rice.edu   |  1) a programmer with a soldering iron,
                  |  2) a hardware type with a program patch, and
"Delays, delays!" |  3) a user with an idea.