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From: waddingt@umn-cs.UUCP (Jake Waddington )
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Survey on Future Macintosh Architec
Message-ID: <990@umn-cs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 10-Apr-86 08:47:15 EST
Article-I.D.: umn-cs.990
Posted: Thu Apr 10 08:47:15 1986
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References: <245@ccnysci.UUCP> <300003@kran> <12850@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <433@gould9.UUCP>
Reply-To: waddingt@umn-cs.UUCP (Jake Waddington )
Organization: Computer Science Dept., U of Minn, Mpls, MN
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Summary: 

In article <433@gould9.UUCP> joel@gould9.UUCP (Joel West) writes:
>I'm a confirmed Mac owner and hacker, but in my opinion, the reason
>why the Mac will fail in its challenge to the PC is that it's too
>little, too late.
>
>A 1mb, 68000-based machine with a hard disk for $4,000 in 1984 would have
>creamed the market.  Or a 512kb machine with floppies at $3,000 in 1983.
>Or true multi-tasking in 1985.
>

I agree. But by extension doesn't that make IBM's 8086 or Risk like machine 
with a plain DOS system very boring in the 1980's !

Paul Fink
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