Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!ucsd!ucbvax!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Apple VS IBM Message-ID: <8902041620.aa03476@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> Date: 4 Feb 89 20:26:43 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 43 >Apple is ok, but you are forgetting, IBM pulled out of the PC business >because of all the clones, they figured since they were losing money because IBM will be VERY surprised to hear that the PS/2's (especially the Model 30 and 30-286) are not PC's!!! :-O >I like Apple, but I would rather see them slow down on the revisions so that >people don't have to keep spending money and more money on something that keeps >getting upgraded... I am living proof that just because Apple upgrades their system you DON'T have to keep spending ANY (much less more and more) money. For some *strange* reason, my 1983 software just keeps right on working ;-) Seriously, when the upgrades have progressed enough so that the capabilities I NEED (you have your own requirements, so naturally your choices differ) are significantly affected, then I'll spend the money (plus interest) that I've saved by not dashing out and acquiring every incremental upgrade offered since 1983 (I think there may be a Mac SE-30 in my future if SPSS Mac really is released this Summer). Yes you can run all your old MeSsy DOS software on a 25 MHz PS/2 Model 70, but aside from the raw speed, you don't nearly benefit from the capability of the machine. By the time you add the memory (6 Mbytes), OS/2 Presentation Manager, and the software to make it worth having a Model 70 in the first place, you might as well have bought a Macintosh SE-30 (start from scratch either way). If Apple, IBM, or Commodore upgrade, don't begrudge others the joy of whatever benefits the new machines offer. As long as your old clunker does what you bought it to do in the first place, what difference does it make to you ("no harm, no foul")? Murph Sewall Vaporware? ---> [Gary Larson returns 1/1/90] Prof. of Marketing Sewall@UConnVM.BITNET Business School sewall%uconnvm.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu [INTERNET] U of Connecticut {psuvax1 or mcvax }!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL [UUCP] -+- I don't speak for my employer, though I frequently wish that I could (subject to change without notice; void where prohibited) According to the American Facsimile Association, more than half the calls from Japan to the U.S. are fax calls. FAX it to me at: 1-203-486-5246