Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!bionet!agate!ucbvax!UIAMVS.BITNET!AWCTTYPA From: AWCTTYPA@UIAMVS.BITNET ("David A. Lyons") Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Apple II future Message-ID: <8901290132.aa16251@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> Date: 29 Jan 89 07:52:44 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 63 X-Unparsable-Date: Saturday 28 Jan 89 10:44 PM CT >Date: Thu, 26 Jan 89 15:32:20 HST >From: Tom Jenkins >Subject: Apple VS IBM >Is Apple Computer listening??? Apple is a _lot_ of people, so I'm not even sure what the question means. The people "near the bottom" who actually do the hard work--engineering and developer technical support, for example--are committed to what they do and are definitely listening. >I am slowly deciding to sell my Apple ][gs to purchase a >more up to date and state of the art computer system. Sounds like you have already made up your mind. I'm sorry to hear that. >In response to all the flame on's concerning the supposed >death of the Apple II line, allow me to make some comments >regarding a single user[']s point of view... People have been predicting the death of the Apple II since shortly after it was introduced. They've been wrong. > o Non-chiclit keyboard (this one slipped out - I HATE the > gs's keyboard compared to a full size one) The keys are full-sized; there is just less "frame" around the edges of the keyboard. If you don't like it, buy almost any ADB keyboard and plug it in. > o Mappable Slots I'd like to see GS/OS support both slots and ports in use at the same time, for disk devices at least. This is possible in software, meaning I expect to see it appear in future system disks for FREE. ----- I don't agree with everything Apple does, but I believe the Apple IIgs is moving forward steadily and that there are great things coming in the short-term future. The appearance of the promised Resource Manager will drastically change and speed up the way people develop software for the GS. Apple is no doubt working on a lot of things they haven't admitted to; in the case of the resource manager, they broke their usual policy of not talking about things before they're ready to release and _promised_ it to prevent developers from causing everybody major headaches by using the Resource forks of GS/OS files before Apple defines their format. Please give the GS that year you promised! >UUCP: {nosc, cacilj, sdcsvax, hplabs!hp-sdd, sun.COM} > ...!crash!pnet01!pro-nsfmat!pro-pac!tomj >ARPA: crash!pnet01!pro-nsfmat!pro-pac!tomj@nosc.MIL >INET: tomj@pro-pac.CTS.COM - BITNET: pro-pac.UUCP!tomj@PSUVAX1 --David A. Lyons bitnet: awcttypa@uiamvs DAL Systems CompuServe: 72177,3233 P.O. Box 287 GEnie mail: D.LYONS2 North Liberty, IA 52317 AppleLinkPE: Dave Lyons