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From: wmd@kran.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Survey on Future Macintosh Architec
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Date: Thu, 27-Mar-86 15:19:00 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 27 15:19:00 1986
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/* Written  5:01 pm  Mar 26, 1986 by rupp@tetra.UUCP in kran:net.micro.mac */
...
Apple //'s (e's and c's) than Macs, if I am not mistaken.  It is true that
the business market has been lost to IBM, but there still is an Apple ][
market, and software still being developed.  
...
/* End of text from kran:net.micro.mac */

A better way to phrase the above would be:

If the business market has been lost to IBM, it is entirely due to their
own (the business market's) stupidity.  An IBM PC can do everything a Mac
can if you're willing to pay the bucks for the add ons and put up with the
inconsistancies between software packages.  But a smart businessman will
say, "Look, for the price of this AT, I can buy two Mac Pluses and achieve
the same functionality but double the productivity."  But we know there
is a lot more conservative businessmen than smart innovative businessmen
around.  Luckily the monetary constraints placed on academia has forced our
administration here to look at the pcs' price/performance ratios and not
their nameplates.

Malcolm Duncan
Krannert Executive Education
Purdue University
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