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From: ctne_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Chris Newbold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Xerox sues Apple!!!
Message-ID: <4574@ur-cc.UUCP>
Date: 18 Dec 89 04:12:23 GMT
References: <6767@tank.uchicago.edu> <1989Dec17.112127.27333@me.toronto.edu> <14960@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Reply-To: ctne_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Chris Newbold)
Organization: University of Rochester
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In article <14960@boulder.Colorado.EDU> kuo@boulder.Colorado.EDU (KUO ANDY Y) writes:
>  It is a fact that NuBus, SCSI, AppleTalk, 68xxx chip is superior than 
>EISA/MCA, ESDI, nothing standard or build in, 80xxx(not include 80486).

You picked the wrong news group to post this (comp.sys.ibm.pc).  In who's
book?  I think that you will find, oh, just a few people disagree with this
statement.  SCSI is as slow as sh*t.  The 68xxx is nice, but I'll take a
'386 or '486 any day of the week.  My Compaq 386 eats Mac SE/30's for lunch.
Can you say "upgradable?"  That's something that you can do with current
80xxx buses.  Try doing that to a Mac without having to pay for an entire
new system board.  Can you add the latest video technology to a Mac by dropping
a a board?  No, you can even open the damn case without a proprietary tool!!!
Can you say "customization?"  Something else you can't do with a Mac.  That's
why nothing comes standard on 80xxx bus machines.

I'll die before I use a Mac or any of it's related equipment.  It's all junk.

>  But the company that took the *risk* to provide the user *more* than
>the other impundent company is being "punished".  What is fairness?
>What is the good judgement?  Where are the users?

What the hell?  Apple *STOLE* it's interface from Xerox.  That's illegal.
You want fairness?  Xerox should bust Apple on it's ass for trying to rip
off their work, sell it as their own, and then have the balls to sue someone
else over it.  Judgement?  Yeah, right...

>  If *some* people would not be so close minded, will the *rest of general*
>users having to learn the terrible interface like the DOS?

What about UNIX?  The interface is little friendlier than DOS, yet it is one
of the most powerful and widely used operating systems...


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