Re: You guys are NUTS !

[CUTblakeney@home.com (Jeff Blakeney)]

On Thu, 20 Jan 2000 22:43:21 -0600, Phoenyx <quazar@dcnet2000.com>
wrote:

>Ok, and I'm not really suggesting that he try this. It was just a
>mention. I too recommended following the standards, but sometimes the
>standards may not be the best way to deal with any given problem.

Yeah, I also agree that there are times when doing low level stuff is
definitely necessary.

>That would be interesting indeed. Yet IMHO, it falls into the same
>category as the emulators. To use the automobile scenario presented
>by others, this machine would be similar to the replica kits which
>are available. While they are great vehicles, they still are not the
>same as the real thing.
>
>I think there may be too many limiting factors for such a machine.
>Any hardware developed for it may not be backward compatible. Software
>which would take advantage of this new system would also have this
>problem. Future developments would, in many ways make the machine more
>like the Mac and less like the Apple2, which is where the GS was
>headed anyway.
>
>What exactly would you like to see advanced in the GS arena?

Just more of what we have now.  :-)

Access to more memory, more storage (more of an OS fix than hardware,
though), better sound, better graphics, faster processor (I'd like to
keep this as simple as the 65xxx series, though).  Just expanding on
what is already there, basically.

It would also be nice if this design could be applied to a laptop
model as well.

By the way, if it wasn't backward compatible, there probably wouldn't
be a whole lot of reason to build it.  There would almost certainly be
some hardware that would not work with a new machine but that is to be
expected as it also happened with all the changes in Apple II
hardware.

As long as I can still pop the top and poke around inside and play
with the same software as I have now I don't see it as not feeling the
same.  At least not if the machine was made the way I'd like it to be
made.  :-)

>Because I have not been able to buy it yet, and don't know if I will.
>It is not always easy for some of us to justify the money we put into
>our hobbies.

I know that feeling.  I have to decide between paying bills or buying
something for my Apple II.  Sometimes I lean toward the Apple II but
certainly nowhere near as much as I would like.  Mind you, I just
treated myself and ordered the TABBS CD-ROM from Shareware Solutions
II.  :-)

>Thanks Jeff, I always enjoy your views on the Apple2. You often offer
>some interesting ideas and opinions.

<BLUSH>  :-)

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