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From: keith@Apple.COM (Keith Rollin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Accepting the Mac (was Re: More Macweek Rumors)
Message-ID: <39559@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 17 Mar 90 07:40:12 GMT
References: <1848@crash.cts.com> <18491@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <12667@thorin.cs.unc.edu>
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In article <12667@thorin.cs.unc.edu> certain@washington.cs.unc.edu (Andrew Certain) writes:
>In article <18491@boulder.Colorado.EDU> kuo@boulder.Colorado.EDU
>(Andy Y.A. Kuo) writes:
>>
>>  Another thing I don't understand is the idea that Apple isn't 
>>supporting the AppleII line.  There has been more OS upgrades
>>for the GS, no Mac user has ever complained about it.  Apple made
>>the video overlay card for the GS, no Mac user has ever complained
>>about it.  Are you just hard to please?  Are you being reasonable
>>at all?
>>
>
>Let's take stock here.  WHen the GS came out in, I believe, 1986, the top
>of the line Mac was an SE.  That means there have been 5 new Mac models
>(the II, IIx, IIcx, IIci and SE/30) relesed since then with NO new
>Apple II models released.  That sounds to me like a lack of support.  Think
>about how much you would complain if Apple didn't release a new Mac for
>4 years while release 5 new models on another line.  I don't think we're
>being hard to please.  I think you're not seeing both sides of the issue.
>

I suppose it's all how you count. You are not counting the fact that since 
September 15, 1986 - when we announced the Apple IIgs - that we've come out 
with several different versions of the GS (new ROMs and RAM configurations), 
the Apple //e (cost reduced, expanded keyboard, more RAM) and Apple //c 
(the //c+ with a faster CPU rate). 

However, many of the Macintoshes you mention above fall into the same category. 
In March of 1987, we came out with the Mac SE and Mac II. I would consider the 
Mac II to be different enough to be considered a major new machine. However, 
the SE is just a faster Mac Plus. As is the SE/30. And the Mac IIx, IIcx, and 
IIci are just minor modifications to the Mac II.

So, if you categorize things in a different - yet still valid - way, the only
new Macintosh we've come out with since the Apple IIgs was introduced was the
Mac II.

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