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From: toddpw@tybalt.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Byte Article
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Message-ID: <1990Jul18.190228.1869@laguna.ccsf.caltech.edu>
Date: 18 Jul 90 19:02:28 GMT
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dlyons@Apple.COM (David A. Lyons) writes:

>In article <1990Jul17.080219.28572@portia.Stanford.EDU> declan@portia.Stanford.EDU (Declan McCullagh) writes:
>> Now, it's close to four years later (almost half a decade - an infinity
>>in the computer world), and the Apple II community has seen no substantial
>>changes in the IIgs.

>No substantial changes?  I suppose you mean just in the hardware, but I would
>argue it doesn't make much sense to consider only the hardware.  Try booting
>up System Disk 1.0 sometime.  There have definitely been major changes in
>the GS User Experience.

No argument there. But tell me, have you tried to use the system, most notably
the INSTALLER, with one drive lately? Now there's a user experience for you!

>But then, I'm a Software guy.  There's a lot left to be done in software.

Agreed. However, the motherboard badly needs a real update -- a quantum leap
in performance that lends credibility to a revised marketing campaign and
does the new system justice.

I won't rehash the Apple //f again (version four? when?) but I will say (again)
that Apple knows how to fix the GS. It's more a matter of internal politics
and whose projects get canned in budget cuts and things like that.

Sad, but true. One consolation: Apple is not (by far) the only company whose
future is threatened by executive politics.

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu