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Originally Posted by 5thWiggle
@mldavis2:
A lot of Apple's company decsions that are attributed to Jobs were actually not his. Jobs was not CEO of Apple (despite co-founding it) until 1997. Jobs was part of the Lisa project until forced out in 1982. The Lisa had cooperative multitasking, protected memory, a HD based OS and expansion. He worked on the Macintosh development until ousted by CEO John Sculley in 1985.
The PC-clone OS is a decendent of NeXTSTEP and OpenSTEP, developed by NeXT computer - founded by Jobs after his ousting from Apple.
Any problems you have with Apple after 1997 you can firmly lay on Job's doorstep. 
(believe it or not, I'm not a huge fan of Jobs. He was a visionary, and an industry shaker, but I save my real praise for the Wonderful Wizard of Woz) |
Please get your facts right...Jobs was CEO until 1985, not 1982.
For a better timeline, see
http://applemuseum.bott.org/sections/history.html
I played with my first pc (a Commodore Pet) in Dec. 1977. All the computer introductions along the time line are accurate. (although to call a machine 4 1/2 time faster, with over 10 times the memory address space as a "rather pitiful computer" is kind of stretching things....