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- From: jas@ISI.EDU (Jeff Sullivan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: Farewell to the Mac? (not flame)
- Message-ID: <22918@venera.isi.edu>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 01:52:14 GMT
- References: <1992Nov17.193022.44891@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
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- In-reply-to: hades@coos.dartmouth.edu's message of 18 Nov 92 21:49:39 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov18.214939.3440@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Hades) writes:
-
- >terjer@ifi.unit.no (Terje Rydland) writes:
- >
- >>model03@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (John Deke) writes:
- >>> Do you think the Mac will be phased out?
-
- [...]
-
- >>This doesn't mean that the old Macs will be unusable. System 7.1 is
- >>constructed so that to add functionality you just drop a new extension
- >>on the System folder (like QuickDraw GX etc)
- >
- > What about System 8 and the new MicroKernal that is being developed?
- >If Macs are going to be phased out, then why would Apple spend so much
- >time and money on developing new system software for them. The system
- >software for the PowerPC is being developed by Taligent.
-
- This is not toally correct. Taligent has already acknowledged that
- their first release won't be until well after PowerPC has shipped.
- They aren't even committing to releasing the Macintosh "emulator" with
- the first release of Taligent.
-
- >>> If so, how? Like the Apple II?
- >
- >>Don't know what they did to the Apple II. I think that the new machines
- >>will be just faster Macs, but maybe with another name (some people - or
- >>firms - will not buy Macs because they have been told again and again
- >>that the Mac is a toy). Maybe they will keep the CISC Macs for home-use
- >>(low-cost) and primarily market the new machines for universities and
- >>firms that needs the power of the RISC chips.
- >
- > PowerPC machines will not be Macs, they will be PowerPCs. This has
- >been stated more than once. The current target for the RISC based
- >machines is the workstation market currently dominated by Sun, but there
- >will continue to be a need for business level PCs for quite some time,
- >and as long as that need exists, I expect there will be Macs to be
- >purchaced.
-
- This is not wholly correct either. From all published accounts (which
- are all officially rumors), the first PowerPCs will be Macs. There
- will be no other OS capable of running on them at first.
-
- jas
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