Re: FN-FORUM: a reminder of Apple's history, was: CSS Help! IE 5 on Mac crapness (and Mail)

date posted 6th August 2004 12:25

Just to refresh some peoples memory of Apple

Apple Mac's o/s is based on smalltalk type o/s, which
was designed by Alan Kay, who after finishing with
xerox's Palo Alto facility became Chief Scientist at a
certain well known videogames Co. , the same one that
apple's current big cheese Mr Steven Jobs got his
grounding in thecomputer/videogame industry with
(Atari namely)

Not only that but, if if wasn't for the fact that most
of Bushnells/Atari's money was tied up with the
development of the VCS, you would n't be using Apple
Mac's now, you've be using something made by Atari or
CBM whichever story you believe

Also, from what people have told me, Apple only came
out with a GUI based computer, after Atari secured the
services of Alan Kay, it was Atari's intention of
sporting a smalltalk GUI based system using the Atari
version of what eventually became the Amiga chip set
(Atari had hoped to get a proto type and system out by
the end of 83, as part of the sierra project)

In addition, Apple only opted for the 68k
series/family of MPU's when Atari started releasing
spec's of the proposed 'sierra' project one of which
was a combo 6502/68000 and the other 2 being combo's
of z80 and 8086/8 mpu (which would have being the
first commercially released dual proc. PC, had Atari
the forsight to mass marketing/manuf'g it)

Also the Proc. used in the apple 2gs, was originally
designed by atari (under the warner admin) and sold to
WDC so as to bring it to mass market (to reduce the
debt from warner's admin of atari), the same proc. was
also used in the Snes/super nintendo

Apparently, according to a small Atari h/w supporter
in the states, Atari themselves could have had this
proc. in their XE's as some bloke was looking to
manuf' and market a combo proc./o's upgrade for the
A8, unfortunately Atari nixed the deal complaining
that the upgrade would hurt ST/e sales (don't quite
see it somehow as the two systems, even with the
upgrade were still incompatible, and were targeting
different markets/users) in addition, atari wanted too
bigger percentage which would have made the upgrade's
pricepoint uneconomically viable to brining the
product to market


reg's

CA

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