Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!batcomputer!schinder
From: schinder@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Paul Schinder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: "Sparc"intosh???
Keywords: Sun Microsystems, Sparc chips, infringement
Message-ID: <7629@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 28 Mar 89 18:39:41 GMT
References: <7461@thorin.cs.unc.edu>
Reply-To: schinder@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Paul Schinder)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Dept. of Astronomy, Cornell U.
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In article <7461@thorin.cs.unc.edu> markham@rho.cs.unc.edu (Andrew Markham) writes:
[stuff about "SPARC"intosh deleted]
>
>I also read that the machine was not PC or Mac compatible(as if it could).
>If so, how in the hell will it survive?  I know that Amiga's are still alive,
>but can anymore like that survive?
>
>If anyone has any info, please post what you know.
>
>Thanx,
>Andy Markham 
><markham@sunmail.cs.unc.edu>
>Computer Science Department
>University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

How did Macintosh survive?  It wasn't compatable with anything else
when it arrived.  If you offer a superior machine at resonable prices,
you just might make it.

On a related note, I hope that if Apple builds a line of machines
around the Motorola RISC chip(s), that they *not* be compatable with
Macintosh.  Instead, I'd like to see Apple learn from the problems
they've had with the Mac and produce a much better machine.  IMHO
that's exactly what Steve Jobs did with the NeXT.  (I realize that
NeXT still has many problems, but it also has great potential).

-- 
Paul J. Schinder
Department of Astronomy, Cornell Univ.
schinder@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu