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A Review of the 128KB Macintosh
bfwebster writes "The physicist John Wheeler famously quipped that 'Time is nature's way to keep everything from happening at once.' The web flattens time by making more of the past accessible. Here, then, is a reprint of BYTE's official review of the original 128KB Macintosh from the August 1984 issue. The article highlights the radical break with other PCs that the Mac represented, while at the same time giving the first real warning of Steve Jobs's least-productive tendency: pre-emptive and often arbitrary constraint of end-user options (e.g., no memory expansion on the 128KB or announced 512KB Macs, even though the 68000 processor had a lovely, flat 16MB address space, as opposed to Intel's 808x segmented hell)."
I spit on them! they are for art students and fools! The only good 68xxx box is an Amiga!
Come one guys one mouse button! what is that about, sigh. I miss my A4000/030 and mocking PC/mac owners.
In the not too distant future, next Sunday A.D.
Even then the Apple computers were overpriced underpowed inconvenient pieces of shit...
Some things never change...
BTW whoever thought of making the Mac so hard to configure for booting [hint: yaboot can make a Mac Mini inoperable, I know I've done it] deserves to be shot.
The PC may suck [for whatever reason I can't fathom as my dual core AMD64 runs fast and isn't on fire] they at least have a BIOS that is easy to get into [hit F2 or DEL] and easy to configure. None of this alt-option-o-f [and MAY work didn't at all for me] crap or "we only boot off hard disk".
Apple computers are about as useful as a wrist watch. Look good and can tell you the time but if you had to sit down and do real work you might as well get an x86 series box [e.g. AMD64].
Tom
Someday, I'll have a real sig.