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From: kuo@boulder.Colorado.EDU (KUO ANDY Y)
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Subject: Re: Xerox sues Apple!!!
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Date: 18 Dec 89 06:46:05 GMT
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In article <1989Dec17.223025.6618@me.toronto.edu> yap@me.utoronto.ca (Davin Yap) 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).
>	
>	Sigh...  There are far too many points to consider in that there
>	sentence of yours.  Suffice to say, you haven't brought up any
>	supporting evidence for your conclusion, nor do I want to get
>	into a discussion (with you) about any of the above.  There are
>	advantages and disadvantages on both sides.
>[lines deleted]

  I agree that there are trade-offs.  And I did not reach these
conclusions all by myself.  I will not want to argue with you either,
at least not before you do some researches yourself.

  Just find some technical datas sheets, many of the magazines are also
good souces (some actually do the comparisons for you), walk that extra
mile will not hurt you.

 
>	Likely; the prices of workstations are dropping dramatically, to
>	the point where you could almost buy one as a home machine.  As
>	evidenced by Apple NOT suing Sun/Apollo/X-Consortium, Apple was
>	not the only company taking *risks*(?).  With the 'sparcintosh' on
>	the horizon, the beginning of the end of Apple (as we know it) 
>	is nigh :-).

  When the Macintosh interface became so successful, the companies
which follow it are not taking risks.  As a matter of fact, a company
that does not give users GUI is taking risks because they are losing
their grounds :-)

  Good idea, workstations as home machines.  The price might be
right, but what about the networks?  Every home equip with a
9600 baud modem doesn't sound too practicle to me, at least not
now.

  You might haven't noticed, the SPARCstation has arrived, and it
has windowing system for it, not totally command driven :-) :-)

  Question, what is the evidence that Apple will not sue these 
other companies? :-)