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In article <danpop.826424237@rscernix> Dan Pop, danpop@mail.cern.ch
writes:
>Again, pure vapour vs shipping OS's and applications.  That's the best
>a MacOS fan can do today.  Can you say lame? 
>

In all fairness, Windows users were making the same arguments a 18 months
ago when Win95 was way behind schedule. OS/2 users were making the same
arguments as well. Mac users were giving the same response you are
giving.  This industry is a constant game of leap frog. Even Win 3.x and
NT are playing it. Comments like this show a basic ignorance of the way
things work.

The way I see it is that no matter how late, Apple will probably come up
with something interesting, and something that MS will rush to mimic. It
will probably be better than Win95-98, but probably not as good as NT
(depending on what criteria are used to judge the two). 

Either way, I think software diversity (and hardware diversity) is a very
good thing. Just genitics, a small gene pool will doom a population. A
large gene pool insures vital change and mututation making the
populations more adaptable and evolved. A single OS/HW platform is the
worst thing that could happen to the industry. Not only would one see
innovation slow to a trickle as it has in the mainstream PC market, but
the choice of applications begins to wane as well, another phenomenon
evident in the PC market. The lack of competing hardware platforms also
diminishes the general population. IMO, the poor state of the PC
arcitecture is directly related to the small number of vendors actively
developing hw. 60-75% of the PC market is directly controlled by Intel
via its motherboards now, and except for high end systems from the likes
of HP, Compaq and IBM, any improvement of the basic architecture is
defined on Intel's timetable.

I say more power to the Amiga's, Apple's, NeXT's and Be's of the world. 

WT