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From: edwards@uwmacc.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: IBM new 'standard'
Message-ID: <1287@uwmacc.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 24-Mar-87 21:26:22 EST
Article-I.D.: uwmacc.1287
Posted: Tue Mar 24 21:26:22 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 26-Mar-87 03:35:02 EST
References: <701@imsvax.UUCP> <879@maynard.BSW.COM> <1029@rpics.RPI.EDU>
Reply-To: edwards@unix.macc.wisc.edu.UUCP (mark edwards)
Organization: UW-Madison Academic Computer Center
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In article <1029@rpics.RPI.EDU> chassin@rpics.RPI.EDU (Dave Chassin) writes:
:Apple has an innovation... shock waves thru the computing world as a new
:field is goudged out: PERSONAL COMPUTING!!! Wow, what a concept, a machine the
:I, and only I use. No more logging in, complicated OS, fabulously expensive
:machines available only the fabulously wealthy Corps and Research Insts. All
:of sudden MILLLLLIONS of people have access to something new. Then IBM 
:announces a product: *THE* pc. And it's just that, a standard, that left
:all other attempts at setting a standard wimpering in the sewers. The PC
:is a very different concept from mainframe or even mini-computer technology.
:It serves a different group, purpose, and ideology. Then we (PC users) are
:told that we are being abandoned. Its not a good feeling...

 You are only partly right. Being able to buy your own computer
 was certainly significant, but being single user with no logins 
 was not even an issue. Why? Because a multiuser/multitasking system
 was not available. Only now are these systems becoming cheap enough
 for the average person. I am sure if you gave these people the choice
 between an Apple 2 and a computer with the power of an 8600 with a
 decent operating system for the same price, they would not choose
 the Apple 2. If I could have bought a 386 instead of the Apple I
 did buy, I would be much happier now. I'm sure that this goes for
 many people, if not all.

 mark
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