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From: dat33228@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Derek A. Taubert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Apple IIgs forever!
Message-ID: <1991Apr3.171536.20100@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 3 Apr 91 17:15:36 GMT
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>When I read these Apple II forever msgs, I feel that it is coming from 
>someone who spent $3000 for a computer system, only to have it be outdated 
>in a few years.
>
Outdated?  No..  When you consider all of the add-on cards that AE and other
companies have made, when you consider that the IIgs Toolbox and GS/OS are
superior to any mac equivalent, when you consider that the machine is 
practically a workstation with only it's system disk, I think you had better
take that back.

>
>Now before I get tons of flame-mail, I would like to say that Apple doesn't 
>have a grudge against the Apple II line or their users, its just that 8/16 
>bit computers aren't profitably anymore.
>

Well, it ain't mail...
It's not that 8/16 bit computers aren't profitable anymore.  If you dare to
argue this, I will ask you how much do you think that Nintendo is worth now?
It's all in the software development.  I'm really pretty offended by your
remarks about this, and I don't want to start a flaming match, but a person
with an atari sig should not stomp his foot around apple grounds.  The sig
alone is enough to get people (like me) jumping down your throat.



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