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From: rhyde@ucrmath.ucr.edu (randy hyde)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: IIgs ROM revisions
Message-ID: <13349@ucrmath.ucr.edu>
Date: 5 Apr 91 08:24:39 GMT
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Apple CAN make a GS
MUCH better than a mac, and it wouldn't cost them like you think it would.
If you knew more about the IIgs, it's architecture and apple's in general,
you would realize this.  Go ahead.  Tell ME that I am wrong.
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Apple could make a high end Apple II which is better than a low end Mac
(Okay, maybe even better than some of the middle range units).  I doubt
they could make an Apple II which outperforms a Mac IIfx or a NeXT Station.
And if they could, would you be willing to pay $10,000 for it?
I don't want Apple to build a high end apple iigs, why should they?
The Mac is a good high end machine with lots of support from Motorola for the
future (68040, 68050, etc.) which we'll never get from WDC or others.
What I would like to see is a *cheap* Apple IIgs.  If they can sell a Mac
Classic with 2 megs for well under $1,000, why can't they sell a 1 meg
Apple iigs, monochrome (like the Classic) with floppy disk drive (like the
Classic) for under $500?
*** Randy Hyde