Xref: utzoo comp.sys.ibm.pc:40623 comp.sys.mac:44993 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!aplcen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!jordan From: jordan@Apple.COM (Jordan Mattson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Xerox sues Apple!!! Message-ID: <37491@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 22 Dec 89 19:19:52 GMT References: <6767@tank.uchicago.edu> <1989Dec17.112127.27333@me.toronto.edu> <14960@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <4574@ur-cc.UUCP> <37366@apple.Apple.COM> <625@bogart.UUCP> <1989Dec21.010731.5240@hellgate.utah.edu> <630@hepburn.UUCP> Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA Lines: 55 In article <630@hepburn.UUCP> jerry@hepburn.UUCP (Jerry Shekhel) writes: >In article t-jacobs@cs.utah.edu (Tony Jacobs) writes: >>In article jerry@bogart.UUCP (Jerry Shekhel) writes: >> >>>the PC as well. You get real. There isn't one area of expandability >>>where a Mac has more options than a PC. ... >> >>Oh, can the PC expand to two monitors and have contiguous workspace that >>is user configurable?? >> > >Gosh, I knew I should have made myself absolutely clear... >I guess I was talking about USEFUL and SENSIBLE expandability options. >Sorry, I'll try to be more clear next time. Thanks for the correction. > >>Tony Jacobs * Center for Engineering Design * U of U * t-jacobs@cs.utah.edu >--- >+--------------------+-----------------------+-------------------------------+ >| | Polygen Corporation | UUCP: | >| Jerry J. Shekhel | Waltham, MA 02254 | {princeton, mit-eddie, | >| | (617) 890-2888 | bu, sunne}!polygen!jerry | >+--------------------+-----------------------+-------------------------------+ Dear Jerry - You have obviously never seen or used the virtual monitor aspect of the Macintosh family or you would not make the comment that you just made. Every time that I have shown virtual monitor to IBM folks at a trade show, they have been blown away. The ability to be running from two to six monitors as a single virtual monitor, is a fantastic aid. Of course, it is one of those things that if you have never experienced, may seem not useful and sensible. But I could never think of giving up my Macintosh II with an RGB Monitor and a Monochrome Monitor running as a single virtual screen. I believe that you were talking about the Macintosh users writing message that sounded like they were written in 1984. Perhaps, you need to catch up with what has happened in the Macintosh world since 1984 and the base that we have built for expansion into the 1990s. For example, I can purchase a Macintosh Plus with a hard disk for around $1,500 out the door from any number of dealers. That is comparable to any number of low end PC clones (and I do not, as many people have said need to buy a keyboard for that system). -- Jordan Mattson UUCP: jordan@apple.apple.com Apple Computer, Inc. CSNET: jordan@apple.CSNET Development Tools Product Management AppleLink: Mattson1 20525 Mariani Avenue, MS 27S Cupertino, CA 95014 408-974-4601 "Joy is the serious business of heaven." C.S. Lewis