Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Path: utzoo!utgpu!utstat!philip
From: philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough)
Subject: Re: Apple Doesn't support their Existing User Base
Message-ID: <1991May28.084622.14722@utstat.uucp>
Keywords: An Apple a day keeps you insane
Organization: U of Toronto Statistics
References: <776@generic.UUCP> <1991May27.130706.5070@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> <10653@plains.NoDak.edu>
Date: Tue, 28 May 1991 08:46:22 GMT

In article <10653@plains.NoDak.edu> glaeske@plains.NoDak.edu (Brian Glaeske) writes:

[quote deleted]

>I've long wondered about the wonderful Mac LC.  What a wonderful company
>Apple is to provide an Apple IIe emulator in hardware no less on a Macintosh
>that can emulate a Intel 286 in software.  

Insignia's SoftPC may be suitable for many things, but it hardly replaces
an AT or even an xt for that matter. I have it running on a IIci and an 040
NeXT. As long as you don't do anything that demands refreshing the screen in a
reasonable perriod of time, it may be a transistional type of progam( although
not inexpensive). I don't see what Apple's use of the 68k family has anything
at all to do with the IIe emulation card. The card is also meant. I assume, as
a transitional product for those people with large IIe software libraries,
such as educators.

>Why couldn't theyhave put a GS on the LC?  Marketing.  People might actually
>think that an Apple GS was a better machine than the baby Macs.  

I assume a GS on a card may come, but it's probably not that easy. In any 
case hybrid products are rarely successful. Better Apple produce and
inexpensive GS, than a IIGS card( or both).

Philip McDunnough
University of Toronto
philip@utstat.utoronto.ca
[my opinions,...]