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From: c60a-3hu@e260-1g.berkeley.edu (Calvin Cheng)
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Subject: Re: Accepting the Mac (was Re: More Macweek Rumors)
Message-ID: <1990Mar17.215509.17734@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 17 Mar 90 21:55:09 GMT
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In article <4429@mace.cc.purdue.edu> asd@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Doug McClure) writes:
>In article <1990Mar17.053255.22944@agate.berkeley.edu> c60a-3hu@e260-1g.berkeley.edu (Calvin Cheng) writes:
>
>>There's a program called II in a Mac that emulates a IIe (not IIGS) on any
>
>An unenhanced IIe right?
>
>>Mac. On a Mac II, it's faster than a stock IIe. The IIGS is far more 
>
>Interesting, never heard it was anything but slow as shit, and major
>buggy and that was a review of it when I read about it, seems like about
>1-2 years after the Mac finally came out.  Course, with megadoses of
>MHz, probably wouldn't run too bad.  And gosh, the IIe manages it on
>just 1something MHz.  Totatlly forget copy protected stuff.  Totally
>forget your add-on boards.
>
How good the software can be would depend on the market demand! if you
insist that the IIe is better than stick with it. Nobody is asking you to
change!

>Yeah, right, I'm gonna go out and shell out the same amount of cash for
>EVERYTHING I have with my IIgs (cpu, monitors, 4 drives, modem,
>joystick, printer, boards) to get a Mac II?  Forget it.  I'll go buy a
>NeXT or an Amiga where I'll be getting my money's worth.  The Amiga is
>cheap for the power it has, and the NeXT at least has all the bundled

Then why buy an Apple in the first place....

>for merging the Mac into the AppleII vs. AppleII into Mac.  After all,
>we (AppleII's) paid for them so in essence, they exist only because of
>AppleII's.  Be funny seeing what Mac users thought about that!  I don't
>even wanna know, cuz I could care less, it ain't gonna happen.
>
This is the f* attitude that piss people off... As if there's an us against
you battle going on... Be realistic, be open-minded!
You can go on blasting till the end of the world... nobody's going to give
a damn.