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...deal represents a major realignment in the PC industry. "Who would have thought these two companies could possibly see eye to eye on anything? It's like a surfer girl marrying a banker," declared Richard Shaffer, publisher of ComputerLetter. If the venture is successful, adds Shaffer, "it could create the most fearsome force in computing ever." Machines made by the two companies could become virtual look-alikes, which would not only eliminate the need for consumers to choose sides but also end much of the confusion prevalent in the industry over the lack of standards...
None of this would have been thinkable a decade ago. Apple founders Steven Jobs and Stephen Wozniak were riding high on the widespread acceptance of their best seller, the Apple IIe, when IBM launched its PC in 1981. While it was bulky, expensive ($2,600, vs. $1,395 for the Apple machine) and difficult to use, the PC was quickly adopted as the industry standard because IBM had a lock on the Big Business market. Apple eventually sold nearly 3 million of its IIe's, mainly for school and home use, but the company was largely shunned by corporations...
According to NAS's official literature, the group is "devoted to preserving the traditional western curriculum" and disclaims the importance of PC areas of scholarship such as women's studies and Afro-American studies...
Thernstrom criticizes Harvard's creation of an Afro-American studies department. He says that in order to avoid the staffing problems currently faced by the field of concentration, the area of study should have been made a committee. He blames the lack of Afro-American scholars to the PC belief that only Blacks can teach the subject, but only a tiny number of Blacks have taken doctorates in the subject...
Thou shalt not bear insensitive witness against PC terminology, nor shall thou speak ill of the differently aged, differently abled or animal companions...