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Etcetera writes "David K. Every (of MacKiDo fame) has written an interesting article at iGeek about Copland vs. NeXT and the decisions that Apple made back in '95-96. Although most agree that bringing Steve Jobs back was a Good Thing, a lot of cool Apple-invented technologies got left by the wayside without a fair shot at proving themselves once NeXT came in. Was it always the right call? Functions as a cautionary tale about management vs. engineering as well."

ottotto writes: "Techweb has a story about Intel's High Speed Graphics Initiative. After discussing another doubling of the AGP, VP Pat Gelsinger said "The next part of that road map is AGP8x, an evolutionary step from AGP4x, to be followed by a future serial graphics bus." ANOTHER serial graphics bus? Is not the upgrade path to IEEE 1394B (800 Mbps Fire Wire) and beyond sufficent? Is this, along with the USB 2.0 spec another way around giving any credit or royalties to Apple?" I suppose companies have to make their plans somehow, and new products are better than living in the 1960s forever. But sometimes these "roadmaps" (which often turn out to be more like directions scribbled on the backs of napkins) seem to smack of planned obsolesence. Do you ever skip the current latest/greatest because you know what's around the corner?

An anonymous reader wrote in to say " You'll remember John Carmack's recent .plan file, which is mostly devoted to a commentary about Macs, both the OS and the hardware. David Every of MacKiDo fame has written an interesting response in today's column. You might also want to check out the quote by John Norstad (near the bottom of the main page) for a good laugh. "

An anonymous reader wrote in to say " You'll remember John Carmack's recent .plan file, which is mostly devoted to a commentary about Macs, both the OS and the hardware. David Every of MacKiDo fame has written an interesting response in today's column. You might also want to check out the quote by John Norstad (near the bottom of the main page) for a good laugh. "

Kurt Weinschenker wrote in to send us a link to an interesting editorial suggesting that Apple release their carbon APIs and allow Linux development with them. It wouldn't hurt, but I don't see it as being as useful as he thinks.