Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!bu.edu!polygen!jerry
From: jerry@polygen.uucp (Jerry Shekhel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Software rehash was: (Re: Egghead Drops Apple II)
Message-ID: <1106@stewart.UUCP>
Date: 21 May 91 18:17:16 GMT
References: <745@generic.UUCP> <1991May19.164402.12684@agate.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: jerry@stewart.UUCP (Jerry Shekhel)
Organization: Polygen Corporation, Waltham, MA
Lines: 25

chiu@ucsee.Berkeley.EDU writes:
>
>>
>>90% of the "latest and greatest" IBM software is just rehash of Apple II and
>>Mac stuff years old. There are some very notable exceptions, but the majority
>>is crap that would not sell on any other system.
>>
>True... I recall something I seen several years back that bears striking 
>resemblance with the original Leasure Suit Larry... And that thing was
>entirely text based and was written in BASIC in DOS 3.3!
>

This is incredible bull.  It's like saying that Ultima VI is just a rehash
of Ultima I, and therefore totally useless.  Or that the Apple IIgs is just
a rehash of the original Apple II, and is therefore worthless.  I suppose
you think that PageMaker 4.0 is just a rehash of the Print Shop?
--
+-------------------+----------------------+---------------------------------+
| JERRY J. SHEKHEL  | POLYGEN CORPORATION  | When I was young, I had to walk |
| Drummers do it... | Waltham, MA USA      | to school and back every day -- |
|    ... In rhythm! | (617) 890-2175       | 20 miles, uphill both ways.     |
+-------------------+----------------------+---------------------------------+
|           ...! [ princeton mit-eddie bu sunne ] !polygen!jerry             |
|                            jerry@polygen.com                               |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+