I hoped my "over the top" exaggeration of the case would be taken in jest, as I've been chided for bashing Steve Jobs and the new Apple much too often.

Thanks for the Woz quote, I've never run across his commentary on the issue.

I was hoping for a "what if" discussion about the acceptance of the Mac OS in the business world. Remember, Motorola, IBM and Apple had never had any great success in that largest of micro markets. All I've ever read here was of the "Doom & Gloom" for Apple mindset regarding CHRP and the Clones, an alternate history discussion, considering an Apple success, might prove interesting.

IBM hardware was in the same boat as the Mac, the "PC Compatibles" were running Windows 95, when it actually worked, in all but the most entrenched IBM IT enclaves. IBM never made a nickel off the unlicensed "Clones" of their hardware spec, having made the same mistake Xerox did regarding the output of the geniuses working at the PARC. IBM had a "Big and Mini Iron" mindset, considering the Micro Market to be trivial, just as the "Copier Heads" at Xerox had.

Hopefully, I'll run across the article about the first wire wrap prototypes and the decision making processes that led to such issues as the memory space limitation workarounds.

The short lived NeXT never became a major competitor in the Unix Workstation market. NeXT died in time for their elegant hardware designs to become collectible, long before the bottom fell out of that market. Sun workstations were dumpstered in huge quantities, becoming semi-collectibles in their own right.

So: what if CHRP was a major success for Apple, rendering the second coming of Steve Jobs unnecessary? :?: