Apple Mac (was: !Re: Nuke Redmond!)

10 Apr 2000

...
   Maybe not
quite as bad as TI, although that $150 "developers club" affair
 is pretty close (at least to me, who was a starving college student at the
 time).  
 Apple gave the Inside Macintosh stuff to pretty much any University or
 College that wanted it.

No they didn't, at least not outside the US.  I believe we got a 10%
to 15% discount, but not much more.  I started Mac development in
1984, when they first came out.  We had to buy a Lisa and the Pascal
development environment, pretty much at list price in order to do
any programming on the Mac.  Within a year we were cross developing
on Unix, Apple's support for their own development environment was
so poor it wasn't worth using.

-- 
Dr. Mark Green                                 mark(a)cs.ualberta.ca
Professor                                      (780) 492-4584
Director, Research Institute for Multimedia Systems (RIMS)
Department of Computing Science                (780) 492-1071 (FAX)
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2H1, Canada

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Apple Mac (was: !Re: Nuke Redmond!)