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From: billkatt@sol.engin.umich.edu (Steve Bollinger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: New Macs
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Date: 24 Jan 89 16:48:00 GMT
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In article <7279@netnews.upenn.edu> hodas@eniac.seas.upenn.edu.UUCP (Josh Hodas) writes:
>In article <8400065@m.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>>
>>I think Apple has shot itself in the foot.
>>
>>-- How much would *YOU* pay for an SE/030 upgrade and the 1.44Mb floppy
>>in your machine?
>>
>>-- What if I said you *get* *to* THROW AWAY your MacSE expansion
>>card(s), *NOW* how much would you pay?
>
>>....
>>
>>Apple has made the same mistake as IBM!  And the blunder comes right
>>after they watched IBM falter!  People resist PS/2's & the
>>microchannel bus partly because they must throw away their AT/XT
>>cards.  Now people can resist the SE/030 for the same reason!

I don't agree.  I have a Mac II, and I can't tell you how much I would give for
a slot which was just the processor bus (as the SEx).  I like NuBus but I want
a higher bandwidth connection.  Besides, why put a fully arbitrated bus on a
machine which only supports one card at a time?

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