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From: rkh@mtune.att.com (Robert Halloran)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Sculley letter (was: Low Blow from Apple)
Message-ID: <794@mtune.ATT.COM>
Date: 20 Sep 90 20:53:50 GMT
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Organization: AT&T BL Middletown/Lincroft NJ USA
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The Sculley letter that is being touted as a re-assurance to the
Apple II community strikes me as anything but.  The only thing I get
from the note is the coming need to pop for a Mac, THEN pop for an
Apple IIe (*NOT* GS) emulation board.  Color?  Mac II? plus....

If Apple were to announce a RISC box in October, then say that existing
Mac owners could get a board for it to run Mac Plus programs (NO color,
etc), how would the Mac community feel?  The school market that Apple is
pushing the II's to isn't going to throw out all their existing machines
and programs to replace them all with Macs; can't Apple see that?  The
home market doesn't need a 'wicked-fast' '040 box with 24-bit color;
the IIf proposal strikes me as a viable, affordable, MARKETABLE system.

Hoping for REAL reassurance in October..... (hoping for Duet for Xmas? :-))

						Bob Halloran
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