#Macintosh rules! (?) <g>
Yeah, you knew it. Who in this forum could be behind such a thread title!?
Well, here is krazy Ana with the news of the month, things that could change
the way you see computing and graphics, things that will change your life, news
that will fulfill your senses and mind, food for your brain, stunning
information… yhm, err, well, you know, the usual comment that may start a 224
messages thread with 128 different topics on it <bg>
Last night, Headline News, a Part of the Cable News Network <g>, a guy with a
PowerBook 5xx was presenting the program. The news:
Apple, to license its Macintosh System Software and hardware designs to
selected companies. Ok, ok, so everybody knew that this was about to happen but
it finally really happened 🙂 The agreements will start to take place in 1995
second half… just with the Windoze 95 launch. The companies, not announced.
My guess: IBM, Acer and Compaq or Dell. The news didn't talk about PowerOpen,
but it is supposed that the IBM/Apple version of Unix will be also licensed to
all the PReP manufacturers. What does this mean, ladies and gentlemen? Another
choice to add to the lottery. And a serious thread to M$. Apple new PMacs'
prices have dropped again.
Meanwhile, IBM announces the delay of their PowerPersonal systems. New date,
January/February 1994. Reason: OS/2 for PReP must be ready to "transmit" the
new way of computing IBM is evangelizing with their next generation systems.
Human centering computing, or how to put on a IBM system what is already on
Macintosh and Next with a few more bells and whistles.
Out of Headlines, Truevision says that they are not planning any OS/2 support
(now I have to say, thanks god). Their "32bit" operating system of choice won't
be NT. It will be Chicago aka Windoze95 aka Windows 4 (now I have to say, no
thanks 🙂 Fortunately for me, they are going to release the T2K for the Mac 😉
Fortunately for everybody, the recently inaugurated desktop video market in the
PC, is starting to interest disk drive makers to release new RAID systems for
use with real time video playing, non linear editing, etc. BTW, I have been
reading mags and watching a few demos of Mac desktop video systems, and I am
amazed. This guys are far beyond anything currently existing in the PC world.
Indeed, in my ignorance, I think that the PC had the advantage over the Mac
world with things like the PAR, the MAX and the T2K. It seems that I was wrong.
BTW, anyone has any experience with the new Abekas Diskus (?) for desktop
systems?
Happy computing, boys and girls <g>
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