Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!o.gp.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!jh4o+ From: jh4o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jeffrey T. Hutzelman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Murph's VAPORWARE Column for November 1990 Message-ID: Date: 31 Oct 90 22:44:56 GMT References: <69@generic.UUCP> Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 24 In-Reply-To: <69@generic.UUCP> taob@pnet91.cts.com (Brian Tao) writes: >> Apple II Compatibility. >> The "no compromises" Apple II card for the Macintosh >> promised by John Sculley appears to represent a substantial >> compromise. The under $200 NuBus board has been announced ^^^^^ >> as an Apple //e card which will not support recent Apple >> IIgs applications. The card isn't expected to ship until >> next March and will have a connector on the back for a 5.25 >> inch disk drive. - PC Week 1 October > > Well, that goes to show how much these PC Week folks know about > the Apple II... the card is an Apple //e (actually //c) emulator! Have > they assumed that the GS is functionally equivalent to the //e?!? This > lack of GS advertising sure manifests itself in strange ways... > >BT Not only that, but it's not a NuBus card - it's a 68020-direct card. -------------------- Jeffrey Hutzelman America Online: JeffreyH11 Internet: jh4o+@andrew.cmu.edu BITNET: JHUTZ@DRYCAS >> Apple // Forever!!! <<