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From: mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Apple's committment to the // line
Message-ID: <35835@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 23 Oct 89 01:39:09 GMT
References: <8910220019.AA05923@trout.nosc.mil>
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In article <8910220019.AA05923@trout.nosc.mil> mmunz@pro-beagle.cts.com (Mark Munz) writes:
>
>It isn't just that. The fact is that since the IIgs was introduced (let's
>see, how long ago was that.. 4-5 years now?? AW2.0 came out to support the
>IIGS in 1984 or so), it hasn't been seriously improved.
>
I suggest you check something more tangible, like the modification dates on
the AW 2.0 disk.  :)  Actually, the IIgs came out in September of 1986, and
AW 2.0 was announced at that time.

>I know, you'll probably jump up and down telling me about the new GS. Well,
>I've been using the "new" IIGS for quite some time. Fact is, when you look
>at the "new" IIGS and compare it to the "old" IIGS and then consider that
>it took 4-5 years to put that together, it should make you sick... because
>in the meantime, Apple has been cranking out new Macintosh machines left
>and right..
>
This only makes any kind of sense if you assume that all of Apple's Apple II
development since September of 1986 went into the recently-announced 1 MB IIgs.
The fact is, especially on the software side, it did not.  Other Apple II
software and hardware products (such as all but the first IIgs System Disk,
AppleTalk networking, the IIc Plus, the Video Overlay Card, GS/OS and System
Software 5.0.2, and more stuff to come) have also taken up Apple II resources
at Apple.

The fact is that Apple has been very busy on the Apple II line, as it has on
the Macintosh line.  It's just that a lot of Apple II development has been in
System Software, which most people can take advantage of very cheaply, and a
lot of Macintosh development has been in CPUs, which are expensive to upgrade
even where it's possible.  Most of our Apple II customers say they prefer
added functionality without having to buy a new machine, and this is what
we've been trying to deliver.

There is always room for other opinions, though.

>Mark Munz


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