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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: My next personal computer will be a PC
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Date: 4 May 90 21:52:29 GMT
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In article <12658@wpi.wpi.edu> ggray@wpi.wpi.edu (Gary P Gray) writes:
>power of a 25Mhz 32 bit processor means the difference between waiting a few
>seconds or a few minutes and waiting hours.

Maybe you should learn how to do arithmetic before making purchasing
decisions.

>>The question is though, what do you hope to gain by buying an IBM-type?
>Programming capability.  Microsoft C, Turbo Pascal, C++... 

While there isn't a commercial version of C++ yet available for the IIGS,
there certainly are reasonable C and Pascal development environments.
Further, there is extensive standard support for desktop programs.

>I guess what I am saying is that I really don't care about Apple // the
>architecture as much as I care about Apple // the design philosophy.

Yes, that's the most valuable aspect of the Apple II, although many of
us think Apple is now managed by people who don't understand it.