Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!think!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!decwrl!glacier!mips!bromo
From: bromo@mips.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Running in place
Message-ID: <571@mips.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 23-Jul-86 02:38:14 EDT
Article-I.D.: mips.571
Posted: Wed Jul 23 02:38:14 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 24-Jul-86 02:35:51 EDT
References: <867@unirot.UUCP> <14942@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: bromo@mips.UUCP (Bob Abramovitz)
Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Sunnyvale, CA
Lines: 50
Keywords: Reinventing the wheel

In article <14942@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> mazlack@ernie.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Lawrence J. Mazlack) writes:
>>It's been three years and six months since Apple first showed the
>>Lisa.  Just to remind everyone, it was a machine much like the Mac,
>>except that it had a 12" screen, 1 meg of memory, slots, and an
>.
>.
>>Clascal, Apple's object-oriented version of Pascal.  The machine even
>>ran Unix as an option.
>>
>>Now, after herculean investments of time, effort, and money on the
>>part of Apple, the developer community, and the user community, it
>>appears that we haven't moved forward much at all.  The up-and coming
>>Mac (likely to be a few months away), will probably have 1 Meg of
>.
>.
>>basic characteristics don't show the 3 1/2 years that have passed
>>since the Lisa's introduction.  One would expect that it would have
>>taken far less time to deliver an affordable system that employs
>>(almost exculsively) established Lisa techonology.
>>
>>Any comments?
>>
>

Providing the same functionality for about 1/2 to 1/3 the price is a
definite improvement.

>Mostly just the old ones questioning why Apple dropped the Lisa line originally.
>Doing so both was technically questionable and lost the confidence of the
>business community - a confidence that Apple still has yet to recover.

The Lisa never had the confidence of the business community, which is why
it no longer exsists.  The Mac HAS gained the confidence of the via community
thru desktop publishing and to a lesser extent Excel. Hence Mac sales of 30K
units a month.
>
>Larry Mazlack
>  UUCP		{tektronix,dual,sun,ihnp4,decvax}!ucbvax!ucbernie!mazlack
>  New style	mazlack@ernie.berkeley.edu	
>  ARPA | CSNET	mazlack%ernie@berkeley.ARPA
>  BITNET   	mazlack@ucbernie.BITNET
>  telephone     (415) 528-0496
>  snail         CS Dept, 571 Evans, U. California, Berkeley, CA 94720


-- 

UUCP:  {decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!decwrl!mips!bromo
DDD:   415-960-1200
USPS:  MIPS Computer Systems Inc,  1330 Charleston Rd,  Mt View, CA 94043