![]() ![]() Later that year Scelley was replaced by Michael Spindler who preceded to do some boneheaded things (key of which was the whole MacClone thing) that nearly destroyed what was left of Apple. By mid-1993, thanks to a good mixture of political infighting, personnel issues, and questionable marketability Project Star Trek had flown into a black hole from which it would not return. The problems with Mac 7.0 (its formal name IIRC) was it ran on too narrow a hardware set and was very sensitive to hardware quality. Project Star Trek (ie the effort to get the MacOS System to run on Intel) began Februand by November of that year the project's tagline of "to boldly go where no Mac has gone before," was being mocked by Coputerworld as "the OS that boldly goes where everyone else has been" Sculley was wrong about Appleās transition to PowerPC: had Apple gone to Intel back then, without benefit of Jobs and the iMac and clean architecture of OS X, the Macintosh would have most likely devolved into a no-value-added PC clone and the company would have disappeared by now.
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