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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.m68k
Subject: Re: What's Nu with VME for Mac?
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Date: Tue, 11-Nov-86 15:30:38 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 11 15:30:38 1986
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In article <7310@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
> The genesis of the Mac's closed-box philosophy can be traced back to an
> Apple internal paper, published a few years ago in one of the ACM SIG
> publications, titled something like "Making a million computers a year".

	Another must-read paper for anybody interested in MacHistory:

%T Design case history: Apple's Macintosh
%A Fred Guterl
%J IEEE Spectrum
%V 21
%N 12
%P 34-43
%D December 1984

	The design trade-offs are staggering.  Why not extra RAM or a
second floppy drive?  Too much heat to survive without a cooling fan.  Have
to save on PCB real estate?  Make the video circuitry do double duty as the
sound generator during the vertical retrace.  Why no parallel interface?
Because the serial interfaces are almost as fast and are a lot easier to
shield to meet FCC specs.  Read the paper.
-- 
Roy Smith, {allegra,cmcl2,philabs}!phri!roy
System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016

"you can't spell unix without deoxyribonucleic!"