Subject: Re: Mac OS on a 486!!! 
Keith Whitehead <>
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In article <>, you write:
> 
> hillman  wrote:
> : deathbird+@CMU.EDU 
> : 
> : kind of slated wouldn't you say?)  Who is going to throw all that to 
the 
> : side and get the Mac OS for 486???

Not Quite the point to be considdered here!
Fact: If/When Apple release system 7  then you will see shortly afterwards Apple no longer producing 
Hardware...Look at Next with their NextStep486 to see what happens.
Who is going to pay Apples Prices when they can get the same thing cheaper 
else where! 

> : If Apple released this before windows 3.0 was released I'd be behind 
them,
> : they missed the boat.  So why is Apple continued development.  Will it
> : support the P5 to its fullest capabilities?  Run faster than Windows?  
It
> : must do something significantly better than Windows and OS2 to warrent
> : being released.


No the continued develeopment is because there is becomming less and less 
profit in Hardware, So the Next Step , is 
to make the money in software , after all you can sell multiple pieces of software to ONE 
hardware platform.

As you also said Windows is a nightmare for programmers, so will the 
temptation to sell system 7 to a couple of MILLION dos users be too much 
for Apple! .

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