>Where do I send some CPU chip to you? I have some of the chips that I >keep looking at them, and they look cool, but I don't know and have no >use of them. They are Pentium chips, 486, 68x40, EPROM, Apple boot ROM, >PC BIOS, G3 raw cpu, PPC cpu, and many others that I don't know what they >are for but if I find them, they are yours. So, if you want to give me >your mailing/shipping address, I can pack up a box and ship all those to >you that I know I won't do anything with them besides just looking at >them. I believe all of them work, except I don't need them.
I have no need for them, nor the storage space to hold them... so don't worry about sending them to me. >Chris, did you know that ever since Microsoft bought $300 million worth >of Apple stock (MS made a bundle out of that deal) back then (don't >remember which year), all the machines shipped from Apple has this >strange arrangement of file icons in the "Internet" folder? I believe the number was $100 million of stock (which they then sold for something like $300 million). And yes, making IE and Outlook Express the default web browser and email client for the Mac OS was part of the deal. No one ever said it wasn't. In fact, it was fully admitted to. MS bought $100 million of Apple stock as a show of faith in Apple Computer. They also agreed to continue to update and support MS Office for the Mac for no less than 5 years. In exchange, Apple agreed to call off the lawyers they had been sicking on MS for years, and make Outlook Express the default email client and Internet Explorer the default web browser. As to the positioning of the icons in the folders, I'm sure that was the finer points of the deal as hashed out by the lawyers after the fact. I'm sure it wasn't by accident that IE and Outlook were up front and obvious and everything else was hidden away. But that doesn't change the fact that Claris was NOT killed to keep MS happy. Nothing Claris was doing mattered to MS. MS didn't care if MacWrite continued or Emailer, or MacDraw, or MacPaint, or Hypercard or ClarisWorks. Oddly, the one application MS did care about was FileMaker Pro, and that continued along without a problem. Everything else that was killed off was done so for money reasons. The other products were just not profitable and served no strategic point to keeping alive (like ClarisWorks did). Emailer was killed simply because there was no profit in keeping it alive. The fact that it would go up against Mail.app was just the nail in its coffin. Apple knew the direction they were heading. It was OS X. And in order to keep Emailer alive, MAJOR work would need to be done to make it OS X native. Plus legal headaches over things like the AOL gateway. Emailer was simply going to cost them far too much money to keep it alive. There was no shot of it having a good return on its investment. On the other hand, NeXTStep already had a nice email client... it was called Mail. It ported nicely to OS X (I ran it originally on the OS X for Intel build I had WAY WAY back before OS X was released to the public, back when it was pretty much NeXTStep with an Apple Menu). Mail let them break away from the old and embrace the new. Honestly, MS had nothing to do with Emailer being killed. All MS wanted was Outlook to be the default email client, and they got that... from there, they didn't care in the least if Emailer was still supported, sold, bundled or otherwise. >Oh well, now you get to work on the "i-KrisMailer" program that we all >will be using in the future now, you hear? Nope, very doubtful anyone here will be using whatever email client I write. I won't be writing it for public use. It will be heavily tweaked to serve my needs. Best case I may release parts of it as GNU and people may be able to pick it up that way... but I can't even say for sure that will happen. If you want an OS X replacement for Emailer, then you need to keep an eye on the EmailerX project instead. There are a few people from this group that are working on an OS X native replacement (I've dropped out of the project due to a conflict of interest. It wasn't fair for me to participate when the plans are to make EmailerX a commercial product, and I have plans to write my own client that may or may not be released as open source. There would be too much of a risk of me accidentally stealing ideas from the EmailerX project and thus possibly hurting their market... so I dropped out to be fair to them, and for my own protection... by not being involved with EmailerX I can honestly say anything I do was my own idea.) -chris <http://www.mythtech.net> ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
