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From: korn@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU (Peter "Arrgh" Korn)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Why not just the ROMs? (Re: Mac+ Upgrade query)
Message-ID: <11994@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: Sun, 23-Feb-86 21:53:32 EST
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In article <2536@reed.UUCP> bart@reed.UUCP (Bart Massey) writes:
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>Why did Apple choose not to exchange the old keyboards, when they agreed
>to change the logic boards?  Surely one is as useful as the other to them...

As a concession to the AUC schools?  (see below, your comment about $$ and
un-bundled upgrades).  Also, they can use the old 512K logic boards in
any 512K macs they sell (as they are not making them any more).

>Why did Apple quit bundling MacWrite and MacPaint with Macs?  If it's
>considered worthless software by them, they should be able to afford to
>bundle it.  If it isn't, I guess they just decided they couldn't afford
>to do us any more favors...

'Cause this discouraged third party development of like programs.

>Why has Apple still not come out with the C and Pascal development systems
>running on the Mac which it promised when the Mac FIRST CAME OUT, n years
>ago?

'Cause they are hard to write and there are many third party ones already
out there, and they are trying for a truely object orniented language,
which isn't an easy thing to do.

>Why in #$%^ would engineers screw up so bad as to make the write-protect
>tab overrideable in software??

'Cause they goofed?

>BTW, about the ROM upgrade, I'm told that the AUC schools *begged* en
>masse to have it unbundled for their *thousands* of macs that they
>couldn't afford to upgrade at all otherwise.  Apple said no way.  Just
>a rumor...

At least these are the reasons I heard when I asked folks.  I find 'em
believable enough to trust 'em.

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