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From: samt@pro-europa.cts.com (Sam Theis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Accepting the Mac (was Re: More Macweek Rumors)
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Date: 18 Mar 90 05:13:06 GMT
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In-Reply-To: message from kuo@boulder.Colorado.EDU

>  I don't understand why AppleII users can't accept the Mac.  If Apple
>had not bothered with the GS but built a Mac that can run the 8bit
>AppleII softwares, then the "GS" that you are praising for would be
>the Mac.  Why can't you think of the Mac softwares as GS specific
>softwares -- since they can't run on a IIe anyway?  Why can't you
>think of the Mac as the "GS" -- since both are "new" architecture?

>  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?
 
You have the gall to indicate that Abernathy is ignorant about the Mac and
thus shouldn't comment and then launch into several paragraphs of statements
that demonstrate a rather large lack in understanding of the GS.  Apple didn't
come out with a Mac that could run // software and even if they had it would
not have been a GS!   First of all, there isn't an affordable Mac with COLOR. 
 
You are obviously not a GS owner from your puzzlement over our displeasure in
the level of support from Apple for the GS.  You speak of all of those OS
upgrades,  hmmm.  I count TWO.  The original ProDOS "16" wasn't really a GS
operating system.  It was an iterim OS.  GSOS has had two major releases, the
original as released on System Disk 4.x and the first real production release
on System Disk 5.0.2.  So, that isn't something to write home about.  In the
same time, the Mac system software has been upgraded several times also.  BUT
in the time when we haven't really had a new processor released, there has
been the Mac SE, Mac II, Mac SE/30, Mac //ci, Mac // .... ad nausium.  We want
a hardware upgrade.  If the Mac users were stuck at the Mac +, they'd be
wanting to lynch someone also.  
 

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