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mike@meinc.com writes:
>The PC preceded the MAC and at the time was more
>advanced than the Apple computer.  It was priced higher than any
>Apple, Amiga, Atari or Radio Shack computer, but had appeal for
>business.  It also was cloneable -- something the other computer
>manufacturers would not allow.

There were actually clones for several preceeding machines (remember
the Laser?).  The problem was that the markets weren't large enough to
put a big dollar value on doing a good job.  You couldn't afford
things like clean-room firmware reimplementation, the only thing that
made PC clones legally possible.

>The best all around
>price/performance/feature compromise was the PC clone.

I'd agree only on price.  In terms of features PCs have generally
lagged far behind the competition.  Performance?  Intel-based PCs
didn't start seeing good performance until just the past few years,
and they're still not the fastest things around.

jim frost
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