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From: knauer@sunc7 (Rob Knauerhase)
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Subject: Re: More HyperCard
Message-ID: <1990Nov7.061219.19130@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 7 Nov 90 06:12:19 GMT
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In article <1990Nov7.045949.5821@utstat.uucp> philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough) writes:
>In article <1990Nov7.015013.13928@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> knauer@cs.uiuc.edu (Rob Knauerhase) writes:
>
>[ hypercard related stuff...]
>
>>I'd expect Apple's release of HyperCard GS to be a real shot in the arm for
>>the machine; the GS running HyperCard (in color, which is important to many
>>people) would be a _real_ competitor to the Mac "Classic" even if they don't
>>drop the price of the GS any.
>
>HyperCard GS is a most welcome addition to the GS, should it ever be
>released.

"Should it ever be released?"  Apple will release it as soon as there's a
color HyperCard for the Mac (after all, we can't have the GS doing things
the Mac can't.  But that's a whole nother flame war...).
[Of course,the way they keep slipping release of HC2.0, perhaps I see what
 you mean! :) ]

> It will have a nice impact, but if Apple doesn't cut the GS
>price by around 1/2 the only people who will benefit from it will be  
>us.

Why do you say that?  I'm not sure what the cheapest color Mac costs (I long
ago quit keeping track of the incremental differences in CPUs), but I'm sure
that a 1.5MB GS with color montior would be cheaper.  Despite Apple's push
of the Mac into schools, HyperCard GS would sell a lot of GSs, and create a
whole new cottage industry of GS stacks/XCMDS etc.  The person I feel sorry
for is Roger Wagner; no matter how good HyperStudio is (and no matter that it
comes with sound hardware), I don't see it competing with Apple-sponsored
HyperCard GS...

Rob
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