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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: new Apple II? (was: Re: KansasFest reviews anyone??)
Message-ID: <13532@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 10 Aug 90 21:06:49 GMT
References: <43767@apple.Apple.COM> <13509@smoke.BRL.MIL> <1990Aug10.004641.16619@utstat.uucp>
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In article <1990Aug10.004641.16619@utstat.uucp> philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough) writes:
>Well, the market for the "personal computer user" is not very large. In
>fact there really isn't a market there.

Oh, yes, there is -- it's just that the manufacturers (including Apple)
mave almost universally lost the vision of personal computing that built
the small-computer industry (NeXT being a notable exception).  Typical
current-day school and business applications were not what was envisioned.