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Re: why did apple go mac?
- Subject: Re: why did apple go mac?
- From: "Bob Healey" <healer@rpi.edu>
- Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 00:35:30 -0500
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA
- References: <9065hg$ej8$1@nnrp1.deja.com>
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"guy-jin" <guyvf@my-deja.com> wrote in message
news:9065hg$ej8$1@nnrp1.deja.com...
> why did apple 'upgrade' to the macintosh when
> the ][ series was still going strong? i mean the
> ][GS came after the mac! why switch? why didn't
> apple just keep improving the ]['s, like IBM did
> with the PC?
Semi OT, but one of my parents was complaining that some simulator software
he used for fire dept. training was recently upgraded from a IIe to a PC.
The II was capable of generating real-time displays and reports. The new
system does not even come close to what the II was able to do. Just a
random thought.