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From: rap@ardent.UUCP (Rob Peck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Apple //GS, words from their world
Summary: aarrgghh
Message-ID: <4131@ardent.UUCP>
Date: 6 Mar 89 22:43:17 GMT
References: <3584@sugar.hackercorp.com> <YY4fLYy00Vsf41J70X@andrew.cmu.edu>
Organization: Dana Computer, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <YY4fLYy00Vsf41J70X@andrew.cmu.edu>, mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi) writes:
> karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer) writes:
> [quoting someone else about the Apple //gs]
> > ...and as a game machine, the thing is a poor man's Amiga.
> > ...GOD IS THIS THING SLOW!

Just another tiny tidbit... the San Jose Mercury News did a review of
Apple Works //gs and it seems to have gotten very low marks for value
and usability.  The few remarks that I recall pertained to not supporting
bidirectional printing, printing blank lines by moving the head all the
way across the page while doing nothing, and taking over 5 minutes of
thinking before starting to print any part of the document (I don't know
if this was the word processor or the spreadsheet part of it).  That
combined with a long load time and an absolute requirement for a minimum
of 1.25Mbytes of RAM ... reviewer did not seem very happy with it.

Rob Peck