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Subject: Apple IIGS
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Date: 9 Dec 88 15:41:26 GMT
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Is there any kind of user feedback/gripeline on AppleLink PE?  For the past
year and a half there have been massive gripes about the GS's speed.  Now
what's this talk about "Golden Gate"???  I don't wanna Mac that plays GS!
It's like Apple is playing on the immense loyalty that Apple II owners have
for their machines.  "Say, John!  They're eating up GS's like hotcakes!
It must be that snazzy `Mac-like' interface we put on it!  Now that the
Apple II world expects point 'n click event driven programs, we can lay
a Mac SE on 'em without anybody raising a fuss!  AND editorials from
Nibble, A+, and InCider will as always praise our decision to 'merge our
markets'!!!  The Apple II problem is at an end! *pop* *glugluglug* *tchink*"

I am sick of the Apple II line topping out to prevent damage to their
up-market products.  There was that problem with the Apple III, now it's
the Mac.  Is the mystic allure of Apple: The Company gone?  Back in the
old days, it was as if the company cared...no, it wasn't.  What am I saying?
It's been piddly enhancement after minor change all the way since the
Apple II plus.  A great victory was one when the //e brought "official"
lower case and 80 column support to the II line.  Double Hi-Res was yet
another victory, as was 128K memory.  But weren't Apple //x rumors floating
around then too?

Maybe now that the Mac II supports 24 bit color, we can get 8 bit color
and fast (read "FAST") hardware without a lot of silly software overhead.
The toolbox concept is fine, but buying the ProDOS 16 reference, Hardware
Reference,  Firmware Reference, Programmer's Introduction, Toolbox Reference
volumes I and II, and maybe the Human Interface Guidelines is way too much!
(at Addison Wellesly prices).  Gahhh!  Maybe I should stop now.  All this
has probably been said before, but I had to get it out before I go whimpering
back to my GS.