home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!brunix!cs.brown.edu!cs123052
- From: cs123052@cs.brown.edu (Michael Lee)
- Subject: Re: Farewell to the Mac? (not flame)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.203309.1997@cs.brown.edu>
- Sender: news@cs.brown.edu
- Organization: Brown Computer Science Dept.
- References: <timmbake.722130353@mcl> <freek.722390091@groucho.phil.ruu.nl>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 20:33:09 GMT
- Lines: 49
-
- |> timmbake@mcl.ucsb.edu (Bake Timmons) writes:
- |> >The guy with the SE can run pretty much the state of the art in
- |> >software, the best of which today is more than most people need.
- ^^^^
-
-
- |> No.
- |>
- |> An SE doesn't have an 68020 (and it doesn't run Color Quickdraw).
- |> Which means that lots of applications won't run. And not just
- |> applications which don't make sense without color. For instance I have
- |> a copy of FontStudio which won't run on my SE.
- |>
- |> There are three kinds of Macs:
- |> 1. 68000 Macs (like the SE)
- |> 2. 68020 Macs without a PMMU (like the LC)
- |> 3. 68020 Macs with a PMMU, 68030 Macs and higher
- |>
- |> Apple is clearly trying to promote the third kind to be the
- |> `standard'. In fact, the only Macs still sold today by Apple are of
- |> the third kind.
- |>
- |> Macs of the first kind are certainly `obsolete'. Macs of the second
- |> kind are not obsolete _yet_. I don't know how long that will remain
- |> so.
- |>
-
- True that Apple is promoting the 68030's and 040's. It's also true
- hat the 68000 based machines are 'obsolete'. To the average everyday person,
- he SE et al. are more than capable of running todays software.
- I'd say that more people want to be able to run MS word 5.x and Excel
- 3.0 and 4.0 than there are who want to run FontStudio. Maybe not...but I'd be
- _very_ surprised. SE's can (and do) run system 7, and a plethora of programs
- out there. Just because it won't run, say, LabView doesn't mean it's useless.
-
- It just depends on who you are.
-
- For _most_ people, an SE (and other 68000's) is powerful enough for the
- average smoe..and _can_ run most of the software that they will want to run.
- (Most _college_ students can easily get away with a Classic (not the II) but
- many don't because they want the "new" computers that happen to be more powerful.
- This also applies to the average user who wants some kind of personal computer.)
-
- Note the difference between Macs and IBM's. What of the XT's, AT's 286's?
- These cpu's are 'obsolete' because they can't run a *lot* of hte software that
- _most_ people want to run, namely windows...[true, I know that an 286 can run
- windows...but...]
-
- - mike
-