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From: mfi@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Mark Interrante)
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Subject: Re: NeXT not revolutionary enough?
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Date: 9 Nov 88 15:56:15 GMT
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>In article <4429@ubc-cs.UUCP>, manis@faculty.cs.ubc.ca (Vincent Manis) writes:

>Note that Apple's successes (and therefore arguably Job's) have not been
>from the rev I machines.  Every see an Apple I or even an Apple II?  No,
>the real success was the Apple II+ (which is still being sold in a slightly
>different form today.)  Similarly the Mac was an anemic toy when first 
>released:  tiny little B&W screen with 128K memory with no possibility of
>expansion.  I was really the MAC II that made the Mac viable for anyone who
                              ^^^^^^
>needs a real machine.
>I have no reason to doubt that this machine for "academia" is just the 
>Apple I for NeXT.  Its the NeXT II+ that I'm waiting for:  the machine
                            ^^^^^^^^
>for the rest of us.

Just for historical accuracy, it was the mac+ with 1mb, hardisk port, and 
updated ROMS, that push the MAC into the "real"machine catagory.



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Mark Interrante   		  Software Engineering Research Center
mfi@beach.cis.ufl.edu		  CIS Department, University of Florida 32611
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