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To: miraje who wrote (5831)	11/2/1997 11:55:00 AM
From: X-Ray Man	Respond to of 213173

There were a few other roadblocks: Apple tried to persuade computer makers to include the operating system on their PCs, but found resistance. Gonzales, the project manager, and a few others took the software on the road. They stopped at Dell Computer in Texas, where they showed Star Trek to founder Michael Dell. Dell was impressed, but told Gonzales bluntly that unless it was free, Dell wouldn't be able to use the promising operating system because Dell was paying Microsoft for its Windows OS for each computer his company shipped, regardless of whether the computer shipped with Windows. In other words... Because of MSFT business practices, which got them in trouble with the DOJ, AAPL never came out with an Intel MacOS even though they had developed it. Hmmm. The picture of MSFT and its affect on the desktop computer industry just gets uglier and uglier.

To: miraje who wrote (5831)	11/2/1997 1:59:00 PM
From: Kevin Kauffman	Respond to of 213173

Thanks for the Star Trek link, James. That's what I was referring to back in post #5412 (http://www3.techstocks.com/~wsapi/investor/s-6136/reply-5412), but I couldn't remember the project name to search for a link.

To: miraje who wrote (5831)	11/2/1997 5:14:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213173

James; Another colossal blunder by Apple, this 'loss of backers' has hurt Apple many time before. Did Apple completely lack professional managers? and thus just run as sea of political toadyism, first to Jobs, then Scully and so on. Such a product would have allowed for another "universe" through the wormhole, and Apple might just have presided over a vastly different dominion. I sure hope they go ahead with it. The speed with which they got it running?, was it a vestigial OS?, or ready to run and x86 ap? The big problem is the 5 wasted years, gone forever. And some fool in charge at Apple killed it??? Bill