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Re: Apple IIx




Supertimer wrote:

> The only reason the IIGS came out at all was because Apple
> did not view the early multimedia market as worthy of the Mac.

And because Mac sales were lousy all through 1985 and some of
1986.

> In the end, it was Apple's split focus that doomed it.

The IIgs?  That was doomed by being rejected by many 8-bit
owners who thought -- and still think, judging by many
messages on this ng -- that it was all about graphics
and sound and being Mac-like, and then also rejected by the
power users who (according to Call-APPLE, as I recall)
were screaming for more power all through 1985, then
compared the IIgs to the Amiga and bought Amigas.