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From: bilbo@pnet02.cts.com (Bill Daggett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: GS+
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Date: 6 Mar 88 01:00:51 GMT
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sector@pro-exchange.cts.COM (Roby Sherman) writes:
>The GS is a great machine, to those of us who have owned Apples all of our
>lives. But let's face it, in today's marketplace, the IIgs is too overpriced
>for it's limited ability.. Running the other ][,// software is a great idea,
>but I'd like to see an Apple II that started from scratch.. I'd like to see an
>Apple II that says "F**K the compatibility!" If you got rid of all those //e
>routines in the GS, it would be so much faster. Right now, the GS has to check

Interesting Roby, but if you are willing to give up your old //e compatibility
you could buy other existing computers today that run things faster then the
//GS without waiting to see if Apple ever does it.  This is precisely what I
did over a year ago when the //GS came out - I said sc*w the old Apple ][
software base.  There is a price you pay for it though, you don't have a huge
software base like Apple and IBM have to pick from.  Oh, and the hardware
costs less.

Bill

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