Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!apple!sun-barr!newstop!sun!concertina!fiddler From: fiddler%concertina@Sun.COM (Steve Hix) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Apple's committment to the // line Message-ID: <126716@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Date: 23 Oct 89 18:55:18 GMT References: <8910191817.aa04292@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> Sender: news@sun.Eng.Sun.COM Lines: 37 In article <8910191817.aa04292@SMOKE.BRL.MIL>, UD182050@VM1.NODAK.EDU (Mike Aos) writes: > This is in reply to all those messages saying the IIgs SHOULD be this, and > SHOULD be that. It SHOULD be faster, it SHOULD have more RAM, it SHOULD have > more ROM.... > > Come on people, it's not like it's a closed system!!!!! The whole philosophy > behind the IIgs is it's expandability!!! Yes, but... You *can* boost the performance of the //gs in any arbitrary direction, and that's good. What's not good, is that doing so makes it less likely that any given program will work properly on the machine. Suppose you boost the video to 24-bit, 1152x900 color. What software is going to support that? Widespread "improving" of the machine makes it much harder to write, test, and support software (and other hardware) for the box. An acknowledged problem with PC clones, btw. While you can do it, the base machine doesn't drag people in off the streets to spend their cash on it. Another problem is that it's almost *too* easy to build enhancment boards for the box...making it not at all certain that some new board won't break something you're already running successfully. > BTW-I still don't understand why people won't buy an accelerator because the GS > SHOULD be faster. It's NOT! Deal with it! This point of view (not upgrading 'cause...) doesn't make much sense at all. Takes all kinds, I suppose. ------------ "...I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing: and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress, while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization." - Petronius Arbiter, 210 B.C.