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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: (none)
Message-ID: <13343@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 11 Jul 90 20:20:55 GMT
References: <3003.apple.net2@pro-grouch>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <3003.apple.net2@pro-grouch> rond@pro-grouch.cts.com (Ron Dippold) writes:
>Actually, if they do decide not to market a new IIgs and concentrate on the
>"lower" end macs, I do hope that Duet (the make-a-IIgs-mac-compatable board)
>becomes a reality and smokes (and I mean _really_ smokes) Apple sales, at
>least until they figure out how to make the Mac systems incompatible with it

Apple seems almost certain to soon offer an Apple //e emulator for the
Macintosh.  Clearly their management still thinks that the only important
Apple II market was the "K-12 educational" market, which has not exactly
been completely converted from 8-bit Apple II to IIGS.  Thus, an 8-bit
product would serve to woo the existing users into the Macintosh camp,
much along the lines of the reasons for giving the IIGS 8-bit
compatibility (and maybe even using the same Mega II chip to do it).
I don't expect to see a IIGS emulator for the Macintosh; what would be
the point?  Most useful IIGS software has equivalent or better native
Macintosh versions available, and people who have invested heavily in
their own IIGS software are at this point probably so pissed off at
Apple that they shouldn't be considered customers for Macintoshes anyway.