Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site rochester.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!gatech!seismo!rochester!henry From: henry@rochester.UUCP (Henry Kautz) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: oreo Message-ID: <12957@rochester.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Nov-85 16:11:14 EST Article-I.D.: rocheste.12957 Posted: Thu Nov 7 16:11:14 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Nov-85 06:03:07 EST Distribution: net Organization: U. of Rochester, CS Dept. Lines: 23 So, the new "open" Mac will have a *SINGLE* expansion slot. Now, that's rumor that I find very credible, unlike all this silliness about Apple building a Unix machine. (Why on earth would Apple want to support another non-business-mainstream OS? Scully will have the Mac running DOS long before Unix...) But the single slot mac makes sense: 1. It proves that even with Jobs gone, Apple can continue to bungle the Mac. Consumers are reassured by consistency in a company. 2. Companies (including Apple) will make big $$$ on the boards for that slot, because users will have to keep throwing out their old boards, and buying more and more powerful and costly multi-function boards, whenever they need a new hardware feature. 3. It will prevent any 3rd party from introducing a popular color board for the Mac. Most upscale users will have that slot filled with more memory or a tape-backup controller, and thus there will not be a sufficient market for a color board. Apple, of course, wants everyone to throw away their computers and buy a new color mac when they are introduced in 1987. ---- Henry Kautz :uucp: {seismo|allegra}!rochester!henry :arpa: henry@rochester :mail: Dept. of Comp. Sci., U. of Rochester, NY 14627 :phone: (716) 275-5766