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- From: cole@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Sandra Stewart-Cole)
- Subject: Re: One binary for all Macs (even 128K)
- References: <1992Dec29.201304.14795@walter.bellcore.com>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 19:30:01 GMT
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- The 128 and 512k are not worth supporting. As someone who actually wrote
- programs for them I am saddened in saying that, but the simple fact is that the
- total number of pre-plus Macs sold was small, and since there were Apple
- upgrades available to Plus status, 3rd-party upgrades to Plus status, and some
- really hazardously shoddy power supplies, ther are not too many of them left
- out there.
-
- I have seen twice in my 8-year history using the Mac a citation of exponential
- sales growth. The first was with the Plus, then with the price cut of '90. Both
- time the Mac press ended up drooling about Apple having sold as many units in a
- year as in all previous years. (I'm being vague because I can't remember the
- exact citations, but remember reading such stories) Given that a used Plus is
- a $300 investment, the pre-Plus market is by nature a cheapskate market. That
- makes it real tough to actually sell anything to them, and if you try to make
- software that can work on ANY Mac you will have to count on selling to people
- with modern macs and maybe having some 2nd-hand sales to people with old Macs.
- On the other hand, if you restrict yourself to using only that information in
- Inside Mac vI-vIII, and add harmless things like vers and SIZE resources for
- later Macs to use, it is a SIMPLE project. The only trouble is that you will
- have some pretty austere programs.
-