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From: vw3@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Vernon Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Woz giveth, Scully taketh away
Message-ID: <1990Oct5.001921.13350@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Date: 5 Oct 90 00:19:21 GMT
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In article <1990Oct4.042059.17703@utstat.uucp> philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough) writes:
>In article <5658@mace.cc.purdue.edu> asd@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Kareth) writes:
>
>[tirade directed at Apple's computer policies,etc...deleted]
>
>Get a hold of yourselves. This is getting out of hand. The idea of the Mac and
>the II() line converging is a very good one for all of us. The more we share 
>with the Mac, the more choices we will have and the more programmers will be
>attracted to the GS. The way it's coming across is that the GS has no qualities
>at all, and if Apple were to offer low-cost Macs that would be the end of the
>GS. I assume GS prices will drop as Apple adjusts its pricing policies. An
>inexpensive GS has great appeal. If it doesn't( and I believe it does) then our

I agree that many people who are griping should get a hold of themselves.
Apple hasn't said they were dropping the II line and though it seems right 
now that they don't know exactly WHAT to do with the II series.

I think, however, that GS owners are somewhat worried more by the fact that 
the new low cost mac will emulate a IIe not a IIGS. This is a bit of a gap 
that the doomsayers say could lead to the "orphaning" of the GS.

I hope that this does not happen, as I think the GS is a good machine with 
of potential, some of it realized, some not. We can only hope that there 
are yet some people in the industry who are as interested in finding 
computer solutions for people as they are in selling computers and software.

The IIGS can fill lots of needs, and does. And this will be true regarless of
what happens to it. My II fills a different need than a mac would. I like
both machines, and I hope that they both are around for a long while.

[other stuff deleted]
>
>Philip McDunnough
>University of Toronto-> philip@utstat.toronto.edu
>[my opinions]
and my opinions :-)


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