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From: gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: To upgrade a Mac SE or not to upgra
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Date: 24 Mar 89 16:33:00 GMT
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I am a Mac II owner --

As someone who bought the Mac II because "A/UX was coming", I
DISCOURAGE you from betting on future OS's from Apple.  After all, no
gambling system is intended to pay off a majority to the players.....
And look what great luck people have had "betting" on OS-2!!!!

I got my Mac II thinking I'd get A/UX when it was released.
Little did I know that initially, Apple would charge $3000 for a hard
disk "loaded with A/UX", and then lower the price to $800, sans
documentation, just for floppy disks.  These prices are outrageous,
even by PC/386 UNIX standards.


Apple is rumbling about charging for future versions of the operating
system.  Don't buy an 030 and get screwed by Apple like I did!!!!!!


Don Gillies, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois
1304 W. Springfield, Urbana, Ill 61801      
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