10 years ago Michael Dell said Apple should close shop

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monami wrote:
as far as i'm concerned it was probably that comment that got jobs off his arse to do something. mac was always a grandads computer and was at the beggining unupgradable (imho) needing you to buy a new box every couple of years and only keeping with the appearence of upgradability so people didn't go buy a pc.

Not too dissimilar to the Amiga then... :crazy:

i'm sure the mac has had it's share of slamming over the years from amiga users so nuff said!
also the success of the mac is down to completely selling out and using the linux opperating system.

MacOSX is actually built from NeXTStep (built on a hybrid FreeBSD Mach3.0 Kernel).

i doubt the ipod is as successfull out of america... and i'm sure in part apple where in a consortium to get places like all of mp3 shut down when profits wain.

As I sit here on on the Tube in London... every third person has an iPod...

i'd like to see a european computer/ os come out but i wonder if behind the scenes there is a vested interest in keeping the computing world all american? 8-)

Apart from RiscOS... there hasn't been a modern mainstream European OS... And I'm really not keen on RiscOS :-)

-Edit- Oh well... Linux was originally European... And AROS is pan global :-)

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Terse wrote:

But had the industry (particularly Apple) continued to back the 68K would it not also have gone the RISC-and-CISC route too?

To be fair RISC and CISC don't really exist any more, all CPUs now are hybrids of those old concepts. As luck would have it, the x86 is quite well suited to this... The 68k is too orthogonal, it's great for asm coders but not for  modern CPU designs. You have to hack the ISA to much and it loses compatibility and thus there is no point!