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From: cbdougla@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Collin Broad Douglas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: New Macs
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Date: 1 Nov 90 21:43:51 GMT
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In article <90304.161217UD169430@NDSUVM1.BITNET> UD169430@NDSUVM1.BITNET 
(Mike Aos) writes:
>><insert standard disclaimer here>    | GEnie: R.Rankins
>
>Statments like this have bothered me since this whole thing started.  Why would
>you want IIgs compatibility on a Mac II?  Everything the GS can do, the
>Mac II's can do better.  Every IIgs program I have has a Mac counterpart that
>is more mature and bug-free.  It has higher resolution, better colors, and is
>just out-and-out BETTER!  I can sorta see the IIe part (although I don't use
>much IIe stuff (ProTerm, Kermit-65 v3.87, and BinSCII...when will there be GS-
>specific versions of these?  I don't tell me about GScii, it doesn't work!)
>for the old-timer IIe users and schools but it really doesn't appeal to me.
>---
>Mike Aos       "I own a Harley, not just a T-shirt!"  ['68 Sporty]
>East Grand Forks, MN (yeah, it's COLD up here)      Are Amiga's really
>(218) 773-9154                  | Woz  |                that bad?
>UD182050@NDSUVM1 (.Bitnet?) |  Apple IIgs | "Share and Enjoy"
>UD182050@VM1.NoDak.Edu    | (and Sun 2/120) | -Sirius Cybernetics Corporation
> I like to trade.    | 'till I can afford a NeXT |  (reserved for a Mac slam)
>       "O captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,
>        The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won,
>        The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting."
>                       _O Captain, My Captain_   -Walt Whitman


  Not everything.  How about the Video Overlay Card?  Where's the Mac 
  equivalent?

  how about Synthlab or Soundsmith?  The Mac doesn't have the sound 
  capabilities of the GS.  

  there's a new version of GScii that works
  I don't see any advantage to a GS version of proterm.  I think term programs
  that use GUIs are evil.  Not to mention, Proterm is really fast.  a GS
  specific version would have to deal with a lot of overhead.

  I don't use Kermit.  It's a nice program but I hate Kermit (the protocol).

  besides, the Mac costs lot more and I'm not willing to spend that much money
  on a Mac II when better machines based on the same microprocessor are less
  expensive.  I got my GS at a really great price.  probably at about $1500
  (or maybe more) less than a comparable system would cost today.  

	 Collin Douglas

	 cbdougla@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu