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From: jm7e+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jeremy G. Mereness)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: 6502 *IS* RISC (was Re: RISC Machines)
Message-ID: <gb0vV8G00Ud506yl5v@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 28 Sep 90 20:53:28 GMT
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Organization: Computing Systems, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.apple2: 27-Sep-90 6502 *IS* RISC (was Re:
> RIS.. Desdinova@uxa.cso.uiuc.e (3297)

> >  I wish I would 'hear' something about the GS.  Even a rumor is better
> than
> >  nothing.

> Oh.  Okay.  Apple will stop selling the Apple ][.  They'll keep
> supporting
> it however.  They ARE coming out with a //e emulator for the new low-end
> color mac.  They're still deciding what kind of color hardware to put on
> it
> "so the // users will feel comfortable" (quoted from a University end
> student price deal guy, NOT an official Apple Rep, but who works daily
> with
> an official Apple Rep).
> Apple will try to "wean // users to the Macintosh line" (quote from the
> guy
> in charge of Apple <somewhere in Europe- see clari.apple....>) by
> offering
> this emulator card for a "<$1000 machine" (quote from University rep
> again).


Sigh, What I thought. I would have wished Apple would allow someone else
to step in (some Japanese companies have made offers) but at least I can
stop waiting for the //x that will never come. 

Please note that I, for one, will never be "weaned" as this suggests. No
Apple // clone on a card will stand up to the real thing (what with 5.25
drives and things, I'll bet this card costs a bundle!), and I am not
interested in buying an overpriced Mac. And I don't believe that the
card is an Apple //gs clone either. It probably just emulates a //c. 

I will continue to program and develop on my //gs and make it as useful
as possible. TCP/IP is my present project. I would like to prove to a
few people how capable my machine is, and could have been. I encourage
everyone else to do the same. 

'nuff said on the matter. It's time to do as much possible with what we
have. 
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