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To: Paul Engel who wrote (62601)	8/17/1998 6:52:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 186894

Engel, RE:" You should have pointed out that the USB in his precious iMAC was an invention of none other than INTEL as is the PCI bus in all other current MAC desktops." I thought it was bad enough that he was proud of Apples 8% of the market. Seems like USB is a step backwards. Isn't it slower than SCSI? I was also surprised to hear that Apple used IDE HDs in some of their models. Jim

To: Paul Engel who wrote (62601)	8/17/1998 7:36:00 PM
From: Eric Yang	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

"You should have pointed out that the USB in his precious iMAC was an invention of none other than INTEL as is the PCI bus in all other current MAC desktops." You should have pointed out that the use of GUI and API, ....heck, personal computers in general were inventions of none other than APPLE. Apple pioneered the use of 5.25" and 3.5" floppy drives, as well as CD-ROM in personal computers. Apple pioneered desktop publishing market with the help of PageMaker and LaserWriter. Apple pioneered the laptop market with its PowerBook in 1991. Eric

To: Paul Engel who wrote (62601)	8/19/1998 1:44:00 AM
From: IanBruce	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

You should have pointed out that the USB in his precious iMAC was an invention of none other than INTEL I'm generally a bit wary when Intel claims to have invented something. They're already in a huge pissing contest over the Pentium -- and the bi-polar technology which serves as the core of the Merced isn't even owned by Intel (nor have they sought permission to use it). On the other hand, IEEE 1394 or "Firewire" was invented 7 years ago by Apple. QuickTime's so good that Microsoft's tried to steal it on at least three occasions. MPEG-4 which'll be showing up in everything from multimedia compression, DVD, wireless, broadcast, digital audio, etc. is entirely Apple. Fun fact: The "advanced" compression code that enabled Intel's video-conferencing system was originally developed by a one-man game development enterprise in Princeton New Jersey. True. Ian Bruce New York, NY