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From: rbthomas@caip.RUTGERS.EDU (Rbthomas)
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Subject: Re: Apple //GS
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Date: Tue, 8-Jul-86 15:15:14 EDT
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> So, did Apple
> do it right this time?  Can adjacent pixels have any arbitrary
> colors?
> 
> -- 
>	Mike Eve     Boeing Aerospace, Seattle
>	...uw-beaver!ssc-vax!ssc-bee!eve

No matter what they do, it will have to have a compatibility mode that
is indistinguishable from the current IIe botch.  In order to keep the
cost down, the new mode will probably extend the IIe botch, rather than
do it 'right' (whatever that means to you personally!)  But to compete
with the Amiga and the ST520/1040, they will have to have something
pretty impressive.  I wonder if it can be done.   Full backwards
compatibility can me *expensive* to maintain.  Apple won't get rich just
selling upgrades to people who already have II series machines.  So they
will have to have something that is cost/performance competitive with the
Amiga and Atari machines to capture new users.  But if it won't make
them rich, you can bet they won't do it.

Given those constraints, I wonder if it can be done...
(Does anybody remember the Apple III?  It did a lot of things 'right',
and it was a commercial failure.)

Rick Thomas