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hotelca@cris.com (Hotel California) wrote:


>There will not be a Copland for 040s and it definitely won't be available
>at the same time as PPC Copland.  Copland is going to be too much for 0x0s

Will there or won't there?

>Erroneous, how?  Apple's computers become obsolete much less than MS's. 
>Apple writes its OS to be compatible with 68000 technology, MS writes its

No, more like -with 128k ROM technology-.  You cannot run 7.5 on a
pre-Plus machine.

>to kind of support 386s but its better to have 040s.  Only the first two
>Mac models are truly obsolete although they are useful like the 286s you
>were talking about for using stuff like MacPaint or MacWrite.  I'd like to
>see a 8088 try to run a current OS with current apps like the Classics at
>school.  Similar time frame, better technology, just like we've been
>saying for years.

The Classic was a new machine in 1990, wasn't it?  And wasn't the 386
a new machine in 1990?

>It is an incentive for Mac Plus owners.  They can still run the best and
>newest software (a lot of it anyway).  They can upgrade to 7.5.  However
>you see all these people with 286s buying new computers and 386 users
>buying more RAM, a larger hard drive, and an overdrive chip so they can
>run the "revolutionary" Windows 95.  Mac Plus owners, however just drive
>down to the store and pick 7.5 off the shelf.

Foolish argument.  How many Mac Pluses came with an 80M hard drive and
4M of RAM?  Not many, if any, I'll bet.

>If you buy a Mac, say a Plus when it came out, you paid around $2,500. 
>You would have had it now for about 9 years.  Total cost $277.78 per
>year.  If you bought a 8088 based machine when it came out you'd have paid
>less.  Then you'd have to upgrade to a 286, probably a motherboard swap. 
>Then to a 386, 486, and possible a Pentium.  Or you would have had to buy
>a new computer.  All of which comes to much more than $277.78 per year and
>definitly more than $2,500 total.  So what happended to the cheaper clone
>vs. the expensive Mac?

Not necessarily.  What if you kept that 8088 and upgraded to a Pentium
75 just now?  What if you split years between the 8088 and Pentium,
getting a P60 last year?  We won't even consider application speed
over a 'Plus'.  

>No, I want to run stuff like WordPerfect (I wouldn't dare touch Word),
>Excel, ClarisWorks, etc.  I want to run new OSs.  I want to be able to buy
>software, not be stuck with only what I already have.

Then run Win3.0 and ClarisWorks.  

I would never seriously advocate WordPerfect 3.1 on anything less than
an 030, and I fail to see why you waste your breath suggesting
otherwise.  We both know it's not exactly fast, even on an 040 (like
mine, an 040 at 33 mhz.)