Begin forwarded message:
> From: John Callahan <[email protected]>
> Date: June 11, 2009 5:36:15 PM EDT
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: John Callahan <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: The powerpc now and in the future....
>
>
>>
>> Maximizing your performance is a different issue entirely.
>>
>>
>> -- Bruce Johnson
>> University of Arizona
>> College of Pharmacy
>> Information Technology Group
>>
>> Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs
>>
>>
>> Bruce: Apple IIE should read Mac II SI, sorry.
>>
> The one application that comes to mind is AppleWorks but there are
> any number of others. I have used Apple computers for seventeen
> years and did so because of the ease of operation for a novice as
> opposed to the mumble-jumble of a PC. My first computer was an
> Apple clone and my first real computer was a Apple II E (should
> read-Mac IIsi) for which I paid the princely sum of twenty-five
> hundred dollars. Along with that I paid (as I recall) six hundred
> dollars for AppleWorks and then, significant sums for upgrades. All
> of this was negated, to a degree, by the advent of Intel. There
> were also compatibility problems with hardware that manufacturers
> failed to anticipate. I was a subscriber to MacWorld, which I read
> and understood as well as a novice could. Much of the language used
> in the various articles was couched in terminology understandable
> only by someone well versed in computer technology. This
> exclusiveness has not helped the average computer user, but has
> hindered the people that believed the Apple pitch that the Apple
> Operating System was designed so that anyone, with the desire,
> could use it. I love my computers and know that they have enriched
> my life immeasurably but I don't believe that "Buyer Beware" is a
> suitable tag to hang on any manufacturer who depends upon the
> public for its profitability. To put it concisely I felt betrayed
> by a company that I had had a lot of respect for, and I do feel
> that Apple shaded the truth and were not as open as they might have
> been in the introduction of a major departure from then current
> equipment and systems. As I recall, Rosetta was introduced after
> Intel Mac's were in the hands of users.
> John Callahan
> [email protected]
> If there are no dogs in Heaven, when I die I want to go where they
> went.¨
> --Will Rogers
> extreme positive = (ybya2)
>
John Callahan
[email protected]
If there are no dogs in Heaven, when I die I want to go where they
went.¨
--Will Rogers
extreme positive = (ybya2)
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