Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!uflorida!mephisto!ncsuvx!news From: rnf@shumv1.uucp (Rick Fincher) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: ROM 04 GS & Brian Greenstone Message-ID: <1990Feb9.193915.13009@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> Date: 9 Feb 90 19:39:15 GMT References: <10073.net.apple@pro-lep> <12092@smoke.BRL.MIL> Reply-To: rnf@shumv1.ncsu.edu (Rick Fincher) Organization: NCSU Computing Center Lines: 28 In article jm7e+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jeremy G. Mereness) writes: stuff deleted > >But stick around, Brian. I'd hate to lose a guy with your talents. And >I think/hope the times they are a' changin'. GS/OS 5.02 has a lot of >potential, and System 6 is supposedly on its way this month. It's >structure is nicer than HFS; take a look at it someday! Yecch! > >'Sides, crummy marketing by Apple is SUPPOSED to make us mad and buy >Macs and Amigas. If we stick around, we screw them and their marketing >logic :-) and Japanese firms like Nintendo start knockin' and saying >"If you don't want that huge user base anymore, you wanna sell it to us??" >and Apple starts getting nervous while their stocks slide and IBM >contemplates an Apple // board for their '386 machines... > >Stick around... let the pot boil just a little more... the bottom's >sure to fall out as surely as the Berlin Wall is coming down! ;-) I think you're right. Allan Loren and Jean Louis Gasse are the first two bricks to fall. Apple has been getting flamed by stock analysts and therefore its shareholders for ignoring the low end (hmmm... seems like I've heard that somewhere before ;-) ). Maybe the corporate systems works after- all, albeit slowly. Rick Fincher rnf@shumv1.ncsu.edu