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Who killed Apple Computer?
Zombie9920:
http://apple.computerhistory.org/stories/storyReader$72
hm_murdock:
Albert Finney?
Pissed_Macman:
quote:One of the most interesting concepts in Sybil was the treatment of the file system as a database. You could do various sorts on your files, organizing them into "piles" grouped by subject. A document could live in several different piles based on its content. It was a promising way to navigate large quantities of information on a hard drive. Instead we're still stuck with a folder paradigm designed for use on 400k floppy disks. (By the way, I hear the next version of Windows will have a database-style file system.)
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Sounds like Apple went ahead with one of their older ideas. How old is that? The copyright says 2003 but the info on that page seems out of date.
Zombie9920:
It says,
This Page was last update: Saturday, September 13, 2003 at 2:17:38 PM
This page was originally posted: 9/2/2003; 10:02:15 AM.
Copyright 2003 Computer History Museum
So it isn't even a month old.
[ September 13, 2003: Message edited by: Viper ]
mushrooomprince:
Apple isn't dead yet. There not going to die even if they are in a niche market.
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