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From: ra_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu
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Subject: Re: Macintosh CLONE
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Date: 15 Mar 89 20:57:01 GMT
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In article <4205c231.a590@mag.engin.umich.edu>, mystone@sol.engin.umich.edu (Dean Yu) writes...
 
>In article <588@nbc1.UUCP> rex@nbc1.UUCP (Rex Espiritu) writes:
>>In the April issue of MACWORLD which I just received, a Macintosh clone
>>will be introduced next month...
>>
>>...and it's made by "Big Blue" (IBM) with Microsoft!  Under $1000!!!
>>
>>Can you believe it!!!

Nope:

a) the date of announcement is April Fool's Day.

b) the box contains almost every conceivable item on a hackers wish-list.
   No way it would be under $1000.  Look at how much the Next ended up costing.

c) this box would blow away the rest of IBM's product line, and establish Mac
   as the dominant standard.  It wouldn't be an Apple killer, but a PS/2 killer.
   Don't think IBM or Microsoft would be keen on that. 
   
Moral: don't believe everything you read in the Macintosh press (but you
didn't anyway, did you? :->).


Robert
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