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To: OrionX who wrote (21254)	12/17/1998 2:25:00 PM
From: HerbVic	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213176

OT: Litigation articles. Cases against online posters. SI prominently mentioned. Must read! CPQ Thread - message number 40314. Message 6872222 Herbvic

To: OrionX who wrote (21254)	12/17/1998 2:58:00 PM
From: J R KARY	Respond to of 213176

S Jobs' LISA , some unfair criticism considering its 1980's timeframe Dvorak trashes LISA'a architecture but what about its contemporaries (competitors) ? Wasn't it aimed at IBM's (DataDog) Sys /23 ? Jobs is blamed for odd ball diskette sizes but what industry drives matched IBM's PC diskettes (ours had dual 80KB drives) ? Dvovak overlooks that IBM invested $100 million in Jobs NeXT start up along with Ross Perot's $50 mill - they saw something then and later so did Amelio ! Worth a historical read : " The rise and fall of the Apple Lisa was a strange tale--one that coincided with numerous industry events and concluded with the ousting of Steve Jobs by John Sculley. Oddly enough, Sculley was lured by Jobs to Apple with a showing of the Lisa prior to its public release in January of 1983." zdnet.com:80/computershopper/edit/cshopper/content/9901/374408.html IBM abandoned its S/23 and that mistake spawned NETWARE OS , along with the BASIC found on the PC's 8086 CPU Hello INTC , NOVL , MSFT - Jobs was a visionary (1983) but a corporate (Pepsi) Sculley later used "FUD" to swing AAPL's board to can Jobs . Jim K.