[Rhodes22-list] How to reduce yourapparentstupidity(macintoshonly)

[TN Rhodey]

Philip,

There are many reasons Macs didn't become the dominant OS. They did alllow 
clones in the early 90s but by the then it was too late. I will say that 
loading software was a strength of the Mac's from the beginning not a 
weakness. In fact early Mac users never had to pay for OS upgrades. They 
were free from any Apple dealer provided you supplied floppies. This was 
true up to the early 90s (System 7 I think?). Also Mac users enjoyed plug 
and play years before Windows. Installing printer drivers, video cards and 
modems was much easier on a Mac than a DOS or windows PC. Remember IRQs and 
that other DOS nonsense? Early revs of the Mac OS supported shared printers, 
modems, and hard drives. DOS users needed the dreaded "black box' or worse 
yet a crappy Lantastic Network.

Early Macs had SCSI years before windows. This allowed scaners and external 
hard drives to be daisy chained. There were very few Mac video card vendors. 
They all worked well though. Also Macs had True Type and Postscript fonts. 
This was light years ahead of windows. A strength of the Mac was  third 
party add ons. Most old Mac users will brag how many SCSI devices they had 
tied together. SCSI wasn't even an option on DOS machines. It was ISA, EISA, 
EDI, and what ever else they came up with.

Apple should of allowed clones years before they did. By the time they 
decide to license clones the market was already MS ruled. The rest is 
history. It is funny how something better does not always win. If you look 
back to the VHS BETA battle. BETA Max was clearly a better product. Yet Sony 
lost. I think it is a good thing Apple survived and they still are enough of 
a player in the industry to matter.

Wally


>From: "Philip" <3drecon at comcast.net>
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>Subject: RE: [Rhodes22-list] How to reduce 
>yourapparentstupidity(macintoshonly)
>Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 10:41:25 -0500
>
>Rummy,
>
>You're right, and by all accounts, everyone I have ever talked to about
>computers has said the Apple is faster and the Mac has been the benchmark
>for graphics for years.  I think the reason Apple didn't take off like the
>PC for home use is they wouldn't license their software.  Everything was
>copy protected and it was difficult to load it to hard drives.
>
>Philip
>
>
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>yourapparentstupidity(macintoshonly)
>
>Wally,
>Bench marks show that the Apple's actually run faster on Windows operating
>systems than they do with OS 10.
>
>Rummy
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