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- From: rolf@geoserv (Rolf Wilson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: Macs cost too much
- Message-ID: <Brqqxq.v5@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 13:32:13 GMT
- References: <14761@claris.com> <1992Jul18.194414.10494@mmm.serc.3m.com> <14784@claris.com>
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- mike_steiner@qm.claris.com (Mike Steiner) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Jul18.194414.10494@mmm.serc.3m.com>, usdta004@mmm.serc.3m.com (Timothy S. Shea) writes:
- >>
- >> From article <14761@claris.com>, by mike_steiner@qm.claris.com (Mike Steiner):
-
- >> > The reason that Apple is doing well is that it has a superior product.
- >> > Why do you think that everyone is trying to copy Apple? OS/2 and
- >> > Windows would not have come into existence if the Macintosh had been
- >> > an unworkable system. If the Mac were as terrible as you say it is,
- >> > Apple would have gone out of business, or would have become just another
- >> > clone company years ago.
- >> >
- >>
- >> I disagree with this statement. Bill Gates and Steve Jobs had the same
- >> ideas about GUIs. Apple hired away a good deal of the Xerox PARC
- >> developers... Good old Bill Gates hired the rest away. Windows and the
- >> Mac were under developement at the same time. Mr. Gates only cared
- >> about the Mac because he sunk a good deal of money into developing
- >> applications for it...meanwhile he was developing Windows for the Intel
- >> machines... A number of other companies also had GUI's under
- >> development for Intel machines...
-
- >Windows and the Mac were under development at the same time? Why then did
- >the Mac come out in 1984, and windows not come out until quite a number of
- >years later--and a halfway decent version of Windows didn't come out until
- >1990 or 91--six years after the Mac OS first came out. And Windows, in a
- >number of ways, still hasn't caught up to the interface of the original
- >Mac OS.
-
- Windows 1.0 was announced somewhere around 1983 - I remember seeing it
- in Infoworld. I think it took most of 2 years before it was actually
- sold. For a while it was a running industry joke, and was one of the
- first products to be tagged "vaporware". But yes, it actually dates
- back that far.
- --
- Rolf Wilson Illinois State Geological Survey rolf@geoserv.isgs.uiuc.edu
-