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From: campbell@maynard.BSW.COM (Larry Campbell)
Newsgroups: misc.legal,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Apple Challenges HP New Wave, MS-Windows, Potentially OS/2 PM
Message-ID: <1066@maynard.BSW.COM>
Date: 21 Mar 88 23:37:45 GMT
References: <5480@well.UUCP> <4092@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Reply-To: campbell@maynard.UUCP (Larry Campbell)
Organization: The Boston Software Works, Inc.
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Keywords: Apple HP Microsoft Windows OS/2 New Wave Frivolous Litigation

In article <4092@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> dumesny@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Alain Dumesny) writes:
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<>Apple has spent several years (four I think) and many, many man hours to
<>produce what is now recognized as a revolutionary way of working with
<>computers.

Apple only stole the great ideas developed at Xerox PARC.  Check out the
Xerox Star -- a _great_ system, if a bit slow, and truly revolutionary at
the time.  It preceded the Lisa and Mac by years.  Maybe Xerox should sue
Apple?

<>            I don't know if you remember, but when Apple introduced the
<>mac more than 4 years ago (January of 84), many PC users (as in IBM PC's) 
<>laughed at the interface saying that mac will never be a serious 
<>"business machine" with this icon based interface (remember that magazine
<>cover page with mac saying "hello" and an IBM PC saying "get lost" ?).

This is typical.  The Mac bigots like to believe that business people
didn't instantly love the machine because its interface didn't fit into
some imagined authoritarian/grey-flannel/mainframe mentality.  Nonsense.
The Mac was ridiculed -- justifiably -- because it had only 128K of memory,
no hard disk, no slots, no upgrade path, take it or leave it, bub!

Now it looks like Apple has finally produced their first real computer, the
Mac II.  But before the Mac II came along the Mac was deservedly classed as
a cute little toy.  (Overpriced, too.)
-- 
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