Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!deimos.cis.ksu.edu!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!jb10320
From: jb10320@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Desdinova)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Apple says "Mac will emulate a II"
Keywords: emulation Apple2 Mac
Message-ID: <1990May2.060711.12729@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 2 May 90 06:07:11 GMT
References: <1990Apr25.130246.26514@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> <1990Apr26.163725.8518@eng.umd.edu> <12290@wpi.wpi.edu>
Sender: usenet@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Lines: 28

In article <12290@wpi.wpi.edu> jayg@wpi.wpi.edu (Jay Giurleo) writes:
>
[stuff about mac vs II removed]

>... For example, say you owned a Chrysler
>Imperial.  Are you necessarily upset that Chrysler stopped making
>that car?  Were you upset when news got out that they were going to
>replace it?   By forcing Apple to make such an old machine, with sales going
>down, we might all be the cause of Apple's downfall as a company, which in my
>opinion, makes the best personal computers around. It might be time to move
>on.

   A Chrysler Imperial doesn't have 5 Million owners who collectively have
25,000 programs that run ONLY on a Chrysler Imperial.  Also take into account
people who don't want to pay a fortune to buy a Mercedes when they can get
by with a revamped Imperial (the Fury, perhaps?)  I think you see my point.
   The apple II made Apple the profit it needed to develop the Macintosh.
It can still make money. There are over 50 million households that could
conceivably buy personal computers.  If Apple wants to make some REAL money,
they should hit THAT market.

>---------- Jay Giurleo ------ jayg@wpi.wpi.edu -----jayg@wpi.bitnet ------

--
Jawaid Bazyar               | This message was posted to thousands of machines
Junior/Computer Engineering | throughout the entire civilized world. It cost
jb10320@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu    | the net hundreds, maybe thousands of dollars,
  > I Need A Summer Job! <  | to send everywhere.