Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!cs225af From: cs225af@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: More Macweek Rumors Message-ID: <15800104@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 16 Mar 90 18:51:00 GMT References: <90@ Lines: 27 Nf-ID: #R:> As far as I can see, the gs is no competition for the Mac II. > But of course you have no idea what you're talking about. > [much ranting about how worthless a Mac really is deleted] If you carefully re-read the initial post, you'll probably see that the line above is taken totally out of context. The author's intention (I assume) was not to say the GS is to the Mac as a Timex is to a Cray. Rather, I believe they were trying to say that the GS represents no competition to the Mac market, as they are two very different machines with different purposes and features. The Macs are used for desktop publishing (you CAN do some reasonably decent stuff with even an SE), not for the numerics, graphics and sound that it is "useless" for. Its users don't need these features, so the "amateurish user base" that uses the Macintosh is totally removed from the average IIgs user. The IIgs therefore really IS no competition for the Mac. Their uses and users are so different that the competition between the two groups should be, and is, minimal. > UUCP: crash!pro-houston!jabernathy | AOL: JOEA17 > ARPA: crash!pro-houston!jabernathy@nosc.mil | Clever comment > INET: jabernathy@pro-houston.cts.com | goes here. --rubio (rubio-1@uiuc.edu)