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From: julerio1@polyob.UUCP (A1 jose ulerio1 )
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Subject: Re: Re: Apple //x (or Why I Hate Macintoshes [longish])
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Date: Tue, 27-May-86 00:22:31 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 27 00:22:31 1986
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	I myself don't really hate Macs, they do have their place, but not
	on MY desk.  The Macintosh was birthed more from the ego of Steven
	Jobs rather than from a need to compete with IBM in the big business
	market, in my opinion.  But let me express a point I'd like to make
	before the assembled flames of netdom descend upon me...

	Steve Wozniak is reputed to have been the chief guiding force behind
	the //x (as well as chief designer & guru), which makes me just a
	bit optimistic about it.  Actually, more than that, quite enthused.
	Why?  Let your mind drift back to the days of the first home micros,
	when IMSAIs and Altairs roamed the land.  Woz designed the II more
	as a hobbyist's tool than anything else.  He wanted it to have
	more built-in features and flexibility than anything else on the
	market.  And this he did quite sucesssfully.  The ][, in its
	Integer and ][+ configurations knocked the socks off of anything
	else currently available then.  He gave the micro owner hi-res
	graphics with control from Basic, the first home disk operating
	system, and near unlimited expandability and direct access to the
 	system bus.  At that time, about the only things arond that came
	close were PETs and Model I's with text graphics.  Disk drives
	were mystical devices that previously only cohabitated with
	mainframes, and no one else even thought about expansion past
	that of main memory, and maybe an RS-232.  To paraphrase Don
	Lancaster, the ][ series was (and still is in my opinion) the
	"DC-3's" of computerdom.  Now just imagine, the same guy capable
	of giving you HGR stuff with $1.97 in extra chips instead of a
	costly graphics coprocessor, behind the design of a 16-bit micro
	for today.  Who knows what he's managed to cobble into the ][
	this time?  The man is an EE genius.

	So, I sit and wait patiently for the first units to arrive in the
	stores and for Apple to raise its self-imposed gag on //x
	propoganda, but for a good cause.

	I'm not expecting something an Amiga in a // case, but whatever's
	in there should be more than adequate for most people's purposes.
	Jose M. Ulerio
	Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering
	Polytechnic University, Bklyn, NY

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