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From: NOWAKO09@SNYBUFVA.BITNET (APPLE //GS - THE POWER TO BE YOUR BEST)
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Subject: Re: new apple IIs...
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Date: 30 Nov 90 23:17:00 GMT
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        One thing about the current PC market that bugs me is the number of
different (and incompatible) architectures there are. This is not bad (except in
the eyes of IBM) but it bothers me that we as personal users should have to
choose only one architecture. Each has a use that we may need on occasion,
the strength of the Apple // has been; 1) Flexibility and 2)Expandability.
What other 8 bit machine has survived into the 32bit 90s? I find that amazing
in itself! But let me add these two cents to the discussion on building the
Ultimate Computer. Why not build simply a general purpose platform that allows
any cpu to be plugged in (via cards) and then used? That way what you give
the consumer is not a new computer but EVERY computer on the market! I
realize there are a number of technical hurdles with this...what kind of
data bus, incompatiblity of peripherals, etc..., but in effect what I am
suggesting is building a Universal Emulator in hardware. Then the only thing
we would have to come out with was a new board every couple of years to allow
for new emulations when new architectures come out.

        On another note (maybe a different thread) I've noticed in a couple of
months old issue of A+ an ad from one company (Zimco?) selling Mac 128& Mac/SE
motherboards for 100$. I know that both these are dead but couldn't they be
upgraded to the new standards or better yet used somehow with the GS to
achieve what the Duet was suppose to do?
                                                        - Joe Nowakowski
                                                        -nowako09@snybufva