On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Doug Yowza wrote:
> Puuhlease! (Is Roger Rabbit still around?)
>
> What was historic about the Mac? It was a cheaper, better Lisa. A mere
> evolutionary improvement over another Apple product (which was just the
> commercializtion of one of PARC's concepts).
Oh come on! Don't start this again. You're going to say that the
Macintosh was NOT historic?
Puuhlease (indeed)!
> The Apple ][ was just an incremental improvement over the Apple 1.
>
> The Altair was a small incremental improvement over the Mark-8, Scelbi,
> etc.
>
> The C64 was cheap. And the PC (not the PC-XT) was just IBM's badge on a
> dull box.
>
> This should teach you two things: don't underestimate small incremental
> improvements and/or "panache", and don't be a revolutionary (nobody will
> remember you).
This is a much different story. The iMac has merely "reinvented" the
wheel. The Apple ][, Altair and C64 almost were the wheel. That's the
difference. If the iMac had a holographic display and used strictly voice
command to operate it, then it might be on order of the Apple ][ or
Altair.
Yes, its historical. But its no Macintosh.
(I want one.)
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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