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- Path: sparky!uunet!pageworks.com!world!ksr!jfw
- From: jfw@ksr.com (John F. Woods)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: Apple Crippling Systems?!?
- Message-ID: <19181@ksr.com>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 11:57:24 EST
- References: <1992Nov21.020604.224@physc1.byu.edu>
- Sender: news@ksr.com
- Lines: 31
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- seth@physc1.byu.edu writes:
- >I have heard the rumors that one of the new up-coming machines Apple will soon
- >be releasingis a 20 MHz 040 machine, but WITHOUT the fpu on board. Is this
- >true? If it is then WOE unto us, my brethren! Apple must be going the way of
- >Intel faster and faster!
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- Yes, Apple is deliberately going to
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- some future systems by building them with less computational horsepower than
- a Cray-3. It really is insane of them to think that just people will buy
- cost-effective computers based on less-expensive components which still manage
- to run applications like word-processors and databases fast enough when the
- ONLY REAL REASON that anyone buys computers is so they can brag to their
- friends about how long their WHETSTONES are. Apple is clearly stupid to
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- their machines and thus sacrifice the absolutely crucial $6,000-per-year
- technogeek market in order to foolishly try to tap a $6,000,000,000-per-year
- home-computer market. Geez, I just CAN'T imagine what those MORONS could
- have been thinking of.
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