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From: NETOPRMS@NCSUVM.BITNET (Michael Steele)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: User Support.... and more!
Message-ID: <705NETOPRMS@NCSUVM>
Date: 18 May 89 23:28:43 GMT
References: <8905150839.AA04525@crash.cts.com>
Organization: North Carolina State University - Computing Center
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What's all this *BS* about Applefest being a flop and the Apple II dying.

LOOK!  I was at Applefest and I've TALKED to the engineers, according to them
 there are over 100 engineers working on the II and each engineer has 4 support
 people...that makes 400 devoted to the II. This rough guesstamate is proof
 that the II isn't going to die anytime soon, otherwise why would Apple waste
 so much money hiring all these people to work on the II.

Where are the "Apple II is going to die" rumors coming from?  Mac magazines....
.well this makes since.  Mac people don't see a reason for the II so they would
 just as soon see Apple spend the money on the Mac instead of "wasting" it on
 developing an "outdated" machine.

 There has been talk of the merging of hte GS and the MAC line, and some
 complaints, but I don't see anything wrong with being able to run MAc software
 on my GS++, do you?
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