So should we conclude that Jobs and the Macintosh cost Apple it’s chance of being a dominant force in the late-1980s PC market?
I don't think you can conclude either way, but I lean toward "no". Even if Apple were quicker to make the Lisa cheaper, faster, and with more applications, they still would have faced tremendous competition from the Atari ST, AT&T Unix PC, Commodore Amiga, etc. -- along with the cash-cow that was the huge Apple II user base (not to be confused with the Mac II which you accidentally wrote as Apple II.) Another thing that could've happened had they stuck with Lisa is Microsoft might have moved more quickly to develop Windows. ________________________________ Evan Koblentz, director Vintage Computer Federation a 501(c)(3) educational non-profit evan@vcfed.org (646) 546-9999 www.vcfed.org facebook.com/vcfederation twitter.com/vcfederation instagram.com/vcfederation