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Article #7667Re: What's Nu with VME for Mac?
From: Chuq Von Rospach; Lord of the Ot...
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 1986 17:27
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 1986 17:27
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> Its a hard call to make, but if the Mac had been open in the beginning, would > it have retained its essence? Even more important: If the original Mac had been open, would anyone have bought it? remember that an open bus adds a LOT of complexity to a system, since you can't put everything on a single board anymore -- you have added costs for a larger power supply, a backplane, for FCC RF interference reductions, for all sorts of things. If the Mac had come out at $5,000 each, with 128K in it and no software, would YOU have bought it? Would all of the other people who did buy the Mac buy it at double the cost? If the Lisa is any indication, the answer it obvious...
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!rutgers!husc6!mit-eddie!ll-xn!nike!oliveb!sun!chuq From: chuq@sun.uucp (Chuq Von Rospach; Lord of the OtherRealms) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac,net.micro.68k Subject: Re: What's Nu with VME for Mac? Message-ID: <8980@sun.uucp> Date: Thu, 6-Nov-86 12:27:27 EST Article-I.D.: sun.8980 Posted: Thu Nov 6 12:27:27 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 7-Nov-86 22:18:53 EST References: <842@gould9.UUCP> <1240@hoptoad.uucp> <203@druil.UUCP> <2199@ecsvax.UUCP> Organization: Fictional Reality, uLtd Lines: 14