Re: Xerox sues Apple!!!

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From: Christopher Silverberg
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1989 03:01

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In article <4574@ur-cc.UUCP> ctne_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Chris Newbold) writes:
>You picked the wrong news group to post this (comp.sys.ibm.pc).  In who's
>book?  I think that you will find, oh, just a few people disagree with this
>statement.  SCSI is as slow as sh*t.  The 68xxx is nice, but I'll take a
>'386 or '486 any day of the week.  My Compaq 386 eats Mac SE/30's for lunch.
>Can you say "upgradable?"  That's something that you can do with current
>80xxx buses.  Try doing that to a Mac without having to pay for an entire
>new system board.  Can you add the latest vid. technology to a Mac by dropping
>a a board?  No, you can even open the damn case without a proprietary tool!!!
>Can you say "customization?"  Something else you can't do with a Mac.  That's
>why nothing comes standard on 80xxx bus machines.

I HAD to reply to this one... it's pretty OBVIOUS that this person hasn't
seen much more than pictures of a Macintosh, or he wouldn't have said
some of the weird things.

Lets take this apart...
"SCSI is as slow as sh*t"... oh, do you have a better method? what, serial???

"The 68xxx is nice, but I'll take a '386 or '486 and day"
  -- your loss, not ours...

"Can you say "upgradable?"
  (saying) upgradable... but if you had a Mac IIci, you can't get too much
  better in computers, or certainly not from an ibm clone.

"Can you add the latest video technology to a Mac by dropping a(sic) a board?"
  yup... have you ever seen Mac graphics? I would have one of those
  Supermac monitors if i could... anyway, VGA is quite behind the capabilities
  offered by the mac, so far...

"Can you say "customization?"" Hahah... this is the best one... the Mac
  is customizable from TOP to BOTTOM... i have more flexibility than i can
  keep track of... ibm clones have a long way to catch up to mac customization.

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From: macman@wpi.wpi.edu (Christopher Silverberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Xerox sues Apple!!!
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Date: 20 Dec 89 03:01:03 GMT
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