11 Oct
2011
11 Oct
'11
10:21 a.m.
Eric writes:
Al Kossow wrote about the 1984 ad:
This quote
from the article was especially interesting:
I continued working on Apple until 1994, when it became
clear that there wasn?t a single person left at the company
who understood or appreciated the Apple brand. IBM was
more interested in being Apple than Apple was, and I found a
better audience in Armonk than I did in Cupertino.
I certainly never was an Apple employee unlike others here.
It's interesting that Apple was away from Jobs from 1985 till 1996 and how this
overlaps some of the dates others write, or I have implied in the past.
The 1985 to 1996 period certainly had a lot of solid incremental advances in the Mac. The
PowerBook and System 7 certainly blew away anything available on a PC-clone at the time.
But at the same time there were NeXT's popping up in offices around me too.... :-)
Tim.
11 Oct
11 Oct
6:37 p.m.
On 11/10/11 1:21 PM, Shoppa, Tim wrote:
Eric writes:
At the time, while we were waiting for the memory protection promised
for System 7 in 1991 (yes, such was promised *koff*), I would have
killed for a NeXT or any UNIX machine - although these were totally
unaffordable. Where I came from, you'd find them mostly in universities
and well funded tech companies.
On my Macs, MPW Shell was a great environment that felt UNIX-ish, but
UNIX it was not. I sympathise with the kind of angst that propelled
Torvalds, around this time, to create his own UNIX on hardware he could
afford.
--Toby
Al Kossow wrote about the 1984 ad:
This quote
from the article was especially interesting:
I continued working on Apple until 1994, when it became
clear that there wasn?t a single person left at the company
who understood or appreciated the Apple brand. IBM was
more interested in being Apple than Apple was, and I found a
better audience in Armonk than I did in Cupertino.
I certainly never was an Apple employee unlike others here.
It's interesting that Apple was away from Jobs from 1985 till 1996 and how this
overlaps some of the dates others write, or I have implied in the past.
The 1985 to 1996 period certainly had a lot of solid incremental advances in the Mac. The
PowerBook and System 7 certainly blew away anything available on a PC-clone at the time.
But at the same time there were NeXT's popping up in offices around me too.... :-)
Tim.
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