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Subject: Re: What's Nu with VME for Mac?
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> Its a hard call to make, but if the Mac had been open in the beginning, would
> it have retained its essence? 

Even more important:  If the original Mac had been open, would anyone have
bought it?  remember that an open bus adds a LOT of complexity to a system,
since you can't put everything on a single board anymore -- you have added
costs for a larger power supply, a backplane, for FCC RF interference 
reductions, for all sorts of things.

If the Mac had come out at $5,000 each, with 128K in it and no software,
would YOU have bought it? Would all of the other people who did buy the Mac
buy it at double the cost?

If the Lisa is any indication, the answer it obvious...