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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Apple support for the II line (was: ROM 04 GS)
Message-ID: <12080@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 3 Feb 90 22:41:04 GMT
References: <9992.net.apple@pro-lep> <1990Feb3.174919.11489@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <1990Feb3.174919.11489@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> rnf@shumv1.ncsu.edu (Rick Fincher) writes:
>Where are you people coming up with all this trash that the IIgs is dead?

Regardless of hardware sales volume, I suspect that the feeling is
reinforced when the IIGS owner enters a typical software store (say,
Electronics Boutique, Babbages, or EggHead) and, after passing through
the front90% of the store containing nothing but IBM PC software,
finally reaches the "off-brand" corner, to find one 4-foot wide shelf
section containing Apple II software, only two shelves holding IIGS
software, virtually all of which he had already purchased more than a
year ago.  By the way, the Macintosh selection is often not much better.

Apart from several items that I had to obtain directly from the
publishers via mail order, I find almost no interesting new software
for sale for the Apple II line (IIGS in particular).  On the other
hand, there has been a LOT of it for the IBM PC line.  What is Apple
doing to encourage software development for the II line?  Judging by
published comments of people in the software industry, apparently not
enough to matter.

Perhaps there is a fundamentla problem in the software distribution
system, such that all the wonderful IIGS software simply isn't showing
up in stores?