Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!hao!ames!sdcsvax!ucsdhub!hp-sdd!hplabs!hpda!hpsmtc1!dlw From: dlw@hpsmtc1.HP.COM (David Williams) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Re: support for older machines & Re: MultiFinder RAMDisks Message-ID: <11540059@hpsmtc1.HP.COM> Date: Tue, 1-Dec-87 13:15:13 EST Article-I.D.: hpsmtc1.11540059 Posted: Tue Dec 1 13:15:13 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 5-Dec-87 11:02:15 EST References: <6863@apple.UUCP> Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino Lines: 26 Well Hp, Dec and IBM all have many more models of Machines--departmental minicomputers that have Much larger OSs to support and much more complicated problems with supporting extremely odd combinations of peripherals and application/database products running on them. And they actually have support organizations and hotlines you can call to get answers and problems solved. They don't just refer you to some uninformed technically incompetent retail dealer! The Operating System Labs in these companies have to deal with hundreds of thousands of lines of source code and work on multiple versions of releases of their OS and language products. However, these companies do obsolete machines from time to time and they do come out with new products that hopefully offer a customer better performance, cost or "shudder" functionality. These products do seem to have a longer shelf life than those on Apples Macintosh line. Perhaps with the advent of enough slots on the Mac II one will be able to purchase one and be able to stay current for a reasonable period of time. Personally I would not buy a Plus or an SE as I think Apple will obsolete them by 1989 and I would not want to have spent 3k or so just to find myself way behind the times! I would not be so pessimistic if the architecture of these two machines provided me with an easy way to upgrade and stay current with the state of Apple Technology. The Plus is now a dead end machine, you can not upgrade it to an SE nor is there color available on the SE. I want Color and mac II performance. Well enough of these incoherent ramblings...