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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Apple II / Mac discusson (was:Re:Official"No New Apple II's")
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Date: 2 Nov 90 00:21:35 GMT
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In article <1990Nov1.214909.18927@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> dcw@lcs.mit.edu (David C. Whitney) writes:
>Director doesn't exist for the GS, so you can't do that on the GS *right
>now*. It's also unlikely that you ever *will* be able to do it simply
>because the general view among publishers (whether accurate or not) is
>that the GS is not suited to do that sort of thing.

While Director doesn't exist in a IIGS version, HyperStudio certainly does,
and it has been used to do the sort of thing that you described.

There is certainly more commercial software support for the Mac than for
the IIGS, at least for non-educational applications; every IIGS user is
painfully aware of that.  On the other hand, now that a usable C compiler
has finally appeared (no thanks to Apple, apparently), a lot more software
for the IIGS has suddenly started to show up.

In the IIGS vs. Mac discussion, remember that Apple has been really pushing
the Mac and really discouraging development for the IIGS.  The IIGS does
have marvelous, useful capabilities, and there are ample illustrations of
that.  Personally, if I were buying a home computer from scratch, I'd get
an IBM PC/AT compatible with VGA/EGA, etc. since it's a better buy than
either a IIGS or a Mac and has much better commercial software support
than either of the Apple product lines.  That is not to say that the IIGS
and Mac aren't generally good machines with good capabilities, perhaps even
better capabilities in some respects than IBM PC clones.  But if you're
going to drag in commercial support issues, Apple is not really in the
running.