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As quoted from <ALMS.89Sep21122621@brazil.cambridge.apple.com> by alms@cambridge.apple.com (Andrew L. M. Shalit):
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| When you take advantage of the power of new machines, you inevitably
| add features that can't be supported on older machines.  This is part
| of the price of progress.  Of course, you should make every effort to
| support backward compatibility, and Apple is doing that (much more so
| than many other computer companies).  But if you want inovation, you
| have to admit some degree of obsolesence.
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Everyone is missing what *else* I said on the subject, to wit: I upgraded a
XT-clone from the brink of obsolescence to something near the cutting edge.
$700 (yes, SEVEN HUNDRED) total.  Apple wants $1700 or more for the equivalent
of what I paid $620 for in my XT-clone, and a few hundred more for the other
$80 of the upgrade (higher resolution graphics).

I also remember Apple reps at a local Mac U/G meeting last year saying that
System 8.0 would *require* virtual memory.  Pluses and SEs will suddenly go
the way of the 128K and 512K Macs at that point.

At this point, from the sheer economics of the situation it would be better if
I unpacked the 386-nee-XT-clone again and packed away the Mac that I just made
able to completely replace the PC.  Boo, hiss.  Of course, the economics of
the situation derive from the fact that IBM has plenty of clones, whereas
Apple is still pristine -- it still amounts to it being a LOT cheaper to keep
one's PC up to date than it is to maintain one's Mac.  And, frankly, with the
price differential there's a limit to how many people are really going to be
interested in buying Macs instead of PCs.  If Apple wants to concede the
market for "the rest of us" and become a high-end workstation company, fine --
but say so and get it over with, so people can bail out before they're
*really* screwed.  Of course, we were all screwed by believing Apple's
original Mac sales pitches, but hey, that's business, right?

Reconsider.

++Brandon
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