Re: The Achilles Heel Of Secure Boot: Certificate Revocation
Dave Yeo <[email protected]>
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Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: > On Sat, 18 Jul 2026 22:57:55 -0700, Dave Yeo wrote: > >> I blame Jobs, who in the early Mac days said a computer should be >> like a toaster. Though if not Jobs, some other marketer would have >> done the same. > The Apple II was a very versatile appliance. And some of the Macintosh > models that were released after Jobs was ejected (like the legendary > Macintosh II) were also quite nice as far as universal machines go. > > It was after Jobs came back to Apple that they dropped the “Computer” > part of the company name, and stopped trying to offer general-purpose > computation devices ... This was before he got the boot. Other quotes I remember, roughly, "users don't need colour" and "users don't need expandability" in between him saying "Apple II forever" Pretty sure he was behind crippling the //GS as well as with the fastest 65816 available it was a better Mac then the Mac. Colour, expandable, lots of bug fixes when MacOS was ported to it, ADB for connectivity, though Mac got that pretty quick. Not to mention a huge catalog of software. Dave