Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!haven!udel!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!o.gp.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!jm7e+ From: jm7e+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jeremy G. Mereness) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: A SIGN FROM APPLE! Message-ID: Date: 16 Sep 90 20:38:50 GMT References: <139800024@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: Computing Systems, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 31 In-Reply-To: <139800024@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> >"Apple II customers...want their installed base of Apple IIs to operate in >concert with newer Macintosh purchases. We are currently working on a >variety of 'bridges' between the Apple II and Machintosh families to make that >synergy even better. During 1990 and 1991, Apple will introduce several new >entry-level MACINTOSH [emphasis mine...] computers, and at least one will have >Apple II emulation capabilites..." This quota comes from John Sculley in a letter to A+/Incider for October. I have an apple //gs. I want it to do and be the same thing it is doing now, only with expanded capabilities, like graphics and speed. I do not want a macintosh or I would have bought one. I certainly am not going to invest in a twisted emulation. This must be how Apple has wanted to deal with us all along. I am very disheartened and discouraged. What's worse is that this won't work. There exist MS/DOS cards for the mac, but people don't buy them. They are too much trouble to get 5.25 disks to work, they aren't expandable, and some software will break. A // emulation will be the same way. Sculley, your plan stinks from square one. If your plan was truly to restore faith in the Apple // in the marketplace, you would address the marketplace with advertising, not letters addressed to a specific (and dwindling) audience that just happens to be making the most noise. I am very, very disappointed. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |Jeremy Mereness | Support | Ye Olde Disclaimer: | |jm7e+@andrew.cmu.edu (internet) | Free | The above represent my| |a700jm7e@cmccvb (Vax... bitnet) | Software | opinions, alone. | |staff/student@Carnegie Mellon U. | | Ya Gotta Love It. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------