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From: fadden@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Andy McFadden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: ROM 04 GS
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Date: 1 Feb 90 18:59:46 GMT
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In article <9769.net.apple@pro-lep> orcus@pro-lep.cts.com (Brian Greenstone) writes:
>I don't mean to be a downer or anything, but even if there is a new ROM 4, who
>cares?  Really, I mean none of the companies out there support the GS now as
>it is with 1 million sold, so why in the world would they start supporting it
>now, now that Apple finally did what should have been done 3 years ago?  I
>know I won't support a new GS, because nobody will have it, and I'd rather
>make slow programs that everyone will see, than fast programs that nobody will
>see.  The sorry fact is that it's too late for the GS to be improved, the
>industry has already abandoned it.  (Please, no hate mail).

No, no hate mail.

I'm very sorry to say that I agree with you...

However: suppose Apple used the 20 MHz ASIC chip being developed.  If
developers were faced with a 4 MIPS machine (which current users could
upgrade to), maybe they'd come back...?

Had a chat with a friend the other day... according to him, the //gs had
80% "market penetration" it's first year (software produced that first
year was purchased by about 80% of the owners).  Gee, we've gone from 60
to 0 in only three short years :-(  We weren't abandoned because the market
doesn't exist, but rather because Apple was too scared to introduce something
like a ROM 04 GS three years back.  My only "wish list" is that Apple would
stop going half-a$$ed and give the GS some guts (like > 6 MHz).

>-Brian

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