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From: rat@madnix.UUCP (David Douthitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Apple IIe/IIc future!
Keywords: IIc, IIe
Message-ID: <1202@madnix.UUCP>
Date: 24 Mar 90 17:26:35 GMT
Reply-To: rat@madnix.UUCP (David Douthitt)
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With all this talk about the fictional Apple IIf, what about an Apple IIex?

I mean, the Apple IIgs isn't all that there is.....

From what I've heard, the IIc+ is 4MHz, which is faster than a stock
Apple IIgs.  I was miffed, though, when I found out that it had a 65C02
and not a 65802 in it.  Perhaps the Apple/WDC slug-out goes deeper and
further than we thought.  What would you like to see on an Apple IIe of
the future?  Here's some of what I'd like..

	o 4 MHz - Apple IIe, IIc+, etc.
	o 65802 at the least...
	o 1 Meg?  We got a 1 Meg GS
	o ProDos-16 for the 65802 IIc/IIe
	o FDHD drives
	o 16-bit ROM software

This is a rather terse list (I'm a software person, not a hardware person!)
but it's a start anyway.  Seems to me an Apple IIe (or IIc) enhanced this
way would be giving Apple a lot of bang for its buck - that is, relatively
few enhancements giving major functionality.  Methinks a 4MHz 16-bit
Apple IIe/IIc would be a welcome sight.

Any thoughts?  From all the IIgs talk out there you'd think IIes and IIcs
were dead, dead, dead, DEAD!  [SIGH]

	[david]