Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ncis.tis.llnl.gov!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Supporting our own Apple //s Message-ID: <8905190106.aa17267@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> Date: 19 May 89 06:02:10 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 25 >However, if we Apple users do get "dumped" from Apple, its going to require >some sort of organization to keep things going. If 18 people release ProDOS >3.0, then no one will know what to run - standards are very convienient things >to keep going. The organization already exists. It's known as Video Technologies (makers of the Laser 128 series of clones). They are PRAYING that Apple will be inept enough to drop the Apple 2 so they can cut a larger slice of a very lucrative market which Apple doesn't seem to really appreciate. In fact, I'm not so sure I'd be unhappy about such an eventuality as I'll bet a 32-bit Apple 2 (65832 CPU) would emerge from Video Technologies while Apple seems less than enthusiastic about the whole idea. Why not? We've been dumb enough (and Asian entrepeneurs have been perceptive enough) to "outplace" color TV, VCR's, DRAM chips, and HDTV development; isn't it logical that home computing should be next? 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] (203) 486-5246 [FAX] (203) 486-2489 [PHONE] 41 49N 72 15W [ICBM] -+- I don't speak for my employer, though I frequently wish that I could (subject to change without notice; void where prohibited)