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From: jerry@polygen.uucp (Jerry Shekhel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Xerox sues Apple!!!
Message-ID: <625@bogart.UUCP>
Date: 20 Dec 89 18:54:31 GMT
References: <6767@tank.uchicago.edu> <1989Dec17.112127.27333@me.toronto.edu> <14960@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <4574@ur-cc.UUCP> <37366@apple.Apple.COM>
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In article <37366@apple.Apple.COM> rewing@Apple.COM (Richard Ewing) writes:
>
>I won't even bother getting into a 68030 vs. 80386 war.  Its pointless.
>Both chips scream.  I will say that I can get a 50 MHz accelerator
>for my Mac II now.
>

OH YEAH.  I've seen this upgrade advertized.  For the same price, you
could alternatively get a second computer system.  Hmmm...  Which do you
prefer -- 50MHz or true multiprocessing?  The point is that in relatively
NO TIME FLAT, Intel will have a 50MHz 486, and then Motorola will no doubt
have a 75MHz 68040.  Who cares?  These things are meaningless.  MHz has become
a commodity.  The latest PCWeek disclosed Intel's plans to release a
250MHz 80786 by the turn of the century.  Should I throw out my 8MHz AT
now?

>
>Latest video technology?  You call VGA and 8514/A the latest technology????
>BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!  Now that's really good!  C'mon now.  I can
>get 24-bit  truecolor cards that actually have an Apple defined
>video standard behind them for under $1000!  Get real on this subject.
>

VGA and 8514/A are standards available to the masses.  If you need it,
you can get truecolor and 4Kx4K resolution and God-knows-what-else for
the PC as well.  You get real.  There isn't one area of expandability
where a Mac has more options than a PC.  And if you start quoting prices,
let's talk about base prices for Macs, to which you have to add for the
keyboard, of course.

>
>Whew...calming down now...flame off.
>

My sentiments, exactly.
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