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From: jimb@amdcad.UUCP (Jim Budler)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Retailer drops Mac
Message-ID: <11205@amdcad.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 2-Apr-86 21:47:49 EST
Article-I.D.: amdcad.11205
Posted: Wed Apr  2 21:47:49 1986
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Organization: AMD, Sunnyvale, California
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Keywords: Incompetence Obselesence Shoddy Sears

In article <11190@amdcad.UUCP> jimb@amdcad.UUCP (Jim Budler) writes:
>HP25: Was replaced by the HP26. Some effort was made to maintain compatibility
>between the machines, but only if you didn't exploit most of the upward
>expanding and newer options of the HP26.  The HP26 was later replaced by the
>series 200, which was not offered with HP25 compatibility.
>
Well I expected lots of flames, and got one very reasoning reply to this section
of my article.

Basically it said:

	1. It's 9825 and 9826 not 25 and 26.  True. I plead poor memory.

	2. HP dropped HPL development but farmed HPL out to another
	vendor to provide support.  At the time I left the company where
	we had much 9825 and HPL inventory for internal use, HP had
	advised us they were discontinuing support of HPL on new machines
	and would not provide it on series 200. Apparently, subsequent
	events nullified this advise.

Still, I was wrong.  My apologies to HP.

I still contend that to castigate Apple for dropping two uneconomic machines
even if YOU love those particular machines is incorrect. No business can
continue to support old machines forever.  
-- 
 Jim Budler
 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
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