Star Gil Amelio's Reign at Apple, and his Eventual Ouster
Linked by Thomas Hormby on Wed 17th Nov 2004 19:43 UTC
Apple 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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Correct me if i'm wrong...
by burns210 on Wed 17th Nov 2004 21:24 UTC

System 7-7.5.3 did lack memory protection and multi-tasking. But the primary competition (the home desktop, not the business desktop) was Windows 3 and 95... 7.0 came out in May of 91 and 7.5.3, the most well-known and I believe last release of the 7.x branch came out in January of 95. To say that 7.5.3 didn't hold a candle to Windows 95 was simply wrong.

Each had nice strengths, each had glaring, glaring shortcomings. I tend to leane toward the mac for 7.5.3 on 'betterness'.

System 8 came out in mid-97 and was arguably competitive with 98, though the momentum had swung firmly out of Apple's favor. 98 was reliable enough and featureful enough to really over compensate and be the better of the twoo systems.

System 9 was out before ME, and was pretty much hands down superior, in part due to the extremely low quality of Windows ME, but also due to OS 9's maturity...

2000 was up against OS X server(99) and OS X 10.0 (2001), 2000 was more stable and reliable (and arguably more useful versus some of the mac's then missing features) than the mac until 10.2 was released.

With 10.2 the mac was essentially on par with XP, give or take in various areas.

10.3 is a step ahead in a few key areas, featurewise (expose and the like, hardware accelerated gui, unix finally being comfortably merged with the mac)... 10.4 will be the 'longhorn' equivalent, and is expected to be out about a year to a year and a half ahead of longhorn. Thus, Mac has pretty much retaken the 'technical' lead in operating systems for a few months.

PS. release dates grabbed from: http://www.aci.com.pl/mwichary/guidebook/interfaces/macos


Nice article, and fairly well done. I have to admit, I was surprised to see the tagline at the bottom saying it was a High Schooler.