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From: daveh@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (David H. Huang)
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Subject: Re: Apple IIgs forever!
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Date: 4 Apr 91 16:23:07 GMT
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In article <1991Apr3.171536.20100@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> dat33228@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Derek A. Taubert) writes:
>Outdated?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.

Yes, the GS Toolbox is much better than the Mac's, and GS/OS is one of
the nicest (if not _the_ nicest) OS I've seen for a PC.

Someone (was it Ryan Collins?? Sorry if it wasn't you) says:
>>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

True, the Nintendo and Super NES are 8/16 bit machines, but they do
have tons of specialized coprocessors though...

>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.

Frankly, I don't care what he has in his sig. If he's got an Atari,
that's fine with me, as long as he wants to talk about Apple IIs.

>+ Derek Taubert --> derek@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu + Author of : GScii	      +
>+		    dat33228@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu  + {MUCH more to come...}	      +

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