Re: A2 Dead?/ Future Apple // compatibility

[Gabriel Morales <Togega@concentric.net>]

Joe Morris wrote:

> But I think an open source distribution would be best.  We are
> a small community and every human resource is precious: there
> are no 12 year old kids cranking out 6502 code, there will
> be no "next" generation.

	Well, I don't know how old most of you are in this newsgroup, and I�m not 12
years old, but I happen to be 16; something which I don't often say over the
'net because of "age opinion." 
	I have an Apple //e and a IIGS, and I plan to keep them up and running for as
long as possible into the 21st century.
	Nevertheless, the Apple // is a (great) machine of the past and I believe
there are only two ways to approach producing new software for it:

1.) See the Apple // more as a versatile appliance; a limited computer to be
programmed for certain limited tasks.

2.)Improve upon the Apple //, designing new hardware for it and ultimately
creating a modern-day computer capable of understanding, executing, and being
programmed as the old Apple //.

	Personally, I'd like to see the Apple // grow and become a "modern" computer.
	If Apple would have only included backward compatibility in the original Mac
and then in the newer Power Macs, the Apple // would have grown- into the Mac-
like the 68K into the Power Mac. But, instead it was a dead end, and we're
still in the alley. I hold nothing against Apple. The Macintosh, also, is
truly a great machine. But, since Apple did not continue the Apple // family,
it is up to <<us>>, the Apple // community, to do so. The very nature of
computers is to evolve.
	So let us continue the Apple // spirit: I challenge everyone capable on this
newsgroup to begin planning future hardware for the Apple //, and a new Apple
// computer. This is what I meant with "Future Apple // compatibility".
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