Linked by Thomas Hormby on Wed 17th Nov 2004 19:43 UTC
According to many economists, Gilbert Amelio is the savior of businesses in trouble. With this in mind, the board of directors at Apple decided to appoint Gil Amelio to the board after reporting another huge loss in 1994. At the time, Michael Spindler was the head of Apple, and sales in every division. The board accepted Spindler's resignation and appointed Gil Amelio to the helm of Apple.
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the line "Apple was still stuck on an operating system obsolete ten years before." is a little over the top"
How true that was. Although system 7 was nice and fairly easy to use, it lacked real multitasking and any memory protection. At this point in time Apple was competing against WinNT which was far more stable than the Mac OS at the time. My how times have changed since then! Steve really did save Apple from doom. DOOOOM!