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From: mw22+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Alan Wertheim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Continuation of the Apple II line
Message-ID: <8VRXrly00XoDFAM08g@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: Fri, 16-Oct-87 11:40:33 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 16 11:40:33 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 17-Oct-87 21:02:19 EDT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon University
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Apple is making the Apple II and the Mac more and more compatible -- they now
share Appletalk, a common keyboard, and I've heard that it is now possible
for one system to read 3.5-inch disks written by the other.  I think the main
problem with the Apple II is that it's too slow, but the Apple II has a
humungous software base that the Mac doesn't yet have.  The solution then is
to make a Mac that can run Apple II software.  If they can get the Mac II to
run UNIX, how hard can it be to put the entire ROM of a IIGS on a card for
the Mac II?  Even Applesoft wouldn't be too bad running at 16 megahertz.


Michael Wertheim
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA

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