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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: IIgs ROM revisions
Message-ID: <15664@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 1 Apr 91 13:58:32 GMT
References: <926.apple.a2.net@pro-nbs>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <926.apple.a2.net@pro-nbs> asong@pro-nbs.cts.com (Andi Song) writes:
>        A ROM 04 IIgs with 2 meg RAM and running at 24mhz (or even
>13-14mhz)....Hmmm, do you think Apple would REALLY even THINK about making
>one? A machine this good would kill Mac sales! So, even though it's our
>dream machine and it would be totally awesome, Apple (Mac, Inc.) would
>never in a million years make this.

NO -- let's not support this bogus argument that Apple has in the past
used internally to cripple the Apple II line; the Apple II and Macintosh
families serve quite different needs and should not be thought of as
competing with each other.  Rather, they should have been thought of as
complementary.