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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (743704)	10/3/2013 1:15:20 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576291

"Did Apple ever have as much troubles as you are experiencing on the NY ObamaCare website?" Yes, they did, and I experienced it personally. I had wanted a Lisa, but didn't have the $10k required. At the time, my IBM PC featured a command line user interface. When Apple introduced the 128k Mac, I got a friend that worked for the University of Texas to buy me one at his employee/student discount, $1900, down from the list price of $2500. What did I discover? Along with thousands of other early adopters, 128k was barely enough memory to load the Mac operating system! Since the Mac didn't come with an internal HD, it had to constantly spool to virtual memory on floppy disks if you wanted to do anything! Which made it terribly slow. I did what scores of other Mac buyers did, using an article in Dr. Dobbs, I pumped up my Mac to 512k myself. It made a WORLD of difference. folklore.org "Jeff explained that Microsoft had put a lot of effort into getting their applications to run well in the tiny space available in the 128K Macintosh, which they considered to be a key competitive advantage. But as things stood, the 512K Mac would undermine their efforts, since it allowed applications to be much larger. Plus, Lotus had recently announced an integrated application suite for the 512K Macintosh called Jazz that made it easy to quickly switch between different functional areas. But if the Macintosh could run multiple applications simultaneously, the small memory footprint of the Microsoft apps would continue to be advantageous, since their lower memory requirements meant that more of them could run concurrently, and users could put together customized application suites on their own. The purpose of the visit was to convince me to write an applications switcher under contract to Microsoft. "