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Subject: Re: IBM's new System 2 Personal Computers
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Date: Fri, 17-Apr-87 00:48:03 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 17 00:48:03 1987
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In article <1990@hoptoad.uucp> farren@hoptoad.UUCP (Mike Farren) writes:
>
>>Really?  The Mac II runs Unix also, and, as you probably know, the
>>whole Macintosh line was designed for easy desktop publishing.  
>
>The Mac II *MAY* run Unix at some unspecified time in the future.  It doesn't
>do so NOW.  Also, desktop publishing was an application developed long after
>the Mac was, not the other way around.  Please note that current activity
>in desktop publishing is concentrating on the IBM-compatible line, NOT the
>Apple machines.

You are wrong about the MacII not running UNIX right now; it does.   All that
is required is the addition of a PMMU, at least 2MB of memory, and a 40MB
hard disk.  It was demoed at the Appleworld conference March 2nd in LA.
Please get your facts right before you flame on the net.

The fact that the desktop publishing *market* was established after the
availability of the Mac, with its multi-font text and graphics capability,
and the LaserWriter printer is certainly true.  However, these can be
considered the *enabling technologies* that synergized such a market.
Of course the PC world has a lot of activity right now; it has a long way
to go to catch up.  

>                 "... if the church put in half the time on covetousness
>Mike Farren      that it does on lust, this would be a better world ..."
>hoptoad!farren       Garrison Keillor, "Lake Wobegon Days"


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Don North
Apple Computer, Inc.
Advanced Technology Group

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