On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Doug Yowza wrote:
Puuhlease! (Is Roger Rabbit still around?)
What was historic about the Mac? It was a cheaper, better Lisa. A mere
evolutionary improvement over another Apple product (which was just the
commercializtion of one of PARC's concepts).
Oh come on! Don't start this again. You're going to say that the
Macintosh was NOT historic?
Puuhlease (indeed)!
The Apple ][ was just an incremental improvement over
the Apple 1.
The Altair was a small incremental improvement over the Mark-8, Scelbi,
etc.
The C64 was cheap. And the PC (not the PC-XT) was just IBM's badge on a
dull box.
This should teach you two things: don't underestimate small incremental
improvements and/or "panache", and don't be a revolutionary (nobody will
remember you).
This is a much different story. The iMac has merely "reinvented" the
wheel. The Apple ][, Altair and C64 almost were the wheel. That's the
difference. If the iMac had a holographic display and used strictly voice
command to operate it, then it might be on order of the Apple ][ or
Altair.
Yes, its historical. But its no Macintosh.
(I want one.)
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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