MAC/ Apple //c compatibility questions (sort of OT)

On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, John Ruschmeyer wrote: > <soapbox> > It never ceases to amaze and confuse me how such product information > can totally disappear, particularly in a buyout. Presumably, Intel bought > Dayna for some reason; I would have assumed it was for Dayna's intellectual > property. Obviously, though, that can't be the case... :-( > </soapbox>

So Dayna obviously had something Intel wanted, but apparently it wasn't for their I.P.

This goes back to the same issue as how a company can lose the source code to a program they use on a continual basis. If you've never worked for a large corporation then its hard to comprehend how intellectual property can be lost. But believe me, it happens all the time in buyouts and mergers. The guys doing the buying have all the money in the world but no technical knowledge whatsoever. They are buying a big black box that contains all sorts of things. They're usually after just one specific thing in that black box (either one particular product, customers, patents, etc) but they have no specific knowledge of what else is in that box, and they don't care. After the merger, the people who knew what was going on are either downsized or they leave, and the knowledge they had of what was inside the black box goes with them. So your favorite software tool or whatever suddenly becomes unsupported. Or in the extreme case, extinct.