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From: alfter@nevada.edu (SCOTT ALFTER)
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Subject: Re: IIGS. Whats happening With this Beast
Message-ID: <1991Apr10.194851.28949@nevada.edu>
Date: 10 Apr 91 19:48:51 GMT
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In article <1991Apr10.170423.26431@athena.mit.edu> tbandit@athena.mit.edu (Carlos E Reategui) writes:
>It is pretty tough to build a better computer when you are trying to maintain
>backwards compatibility with a machine like the Apple II where you're slots are
>8bit wide slots and the CPU is too.

That argument holds no water when you look at the MeSsy-DOS world.
From the XT with 8-bit slots, to the AT with 16-bit ISA, to the better
386 and 486 boxes with 32-bit EISA, you have machines that are
backward-compatible, but still take advantage of the latest
technology.  There is no excuse for Apple to have not done the same
when they designed the IIGS--other than that Apple would just as soon
sacrifice the II in favor of the Mac.

I like my IIe a lot, but there's a lot of stuff I'd like to do
(playing with graphics, mainly) that simply can't be done.  The IIGS
is a nice computer, but it's hideously expensive for what you get--yet
another Apple tactic to get people to buy Macs.  I don't intend to
give them the satisfaction of gaining another convert; my next
computer purchase (when I get the money together) will probably be
some sort of MeSsy-DOS box, but it most definitely will not be a Mac.

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