Re: PLEASE STOP THE MAC AND MICROSOFT MESSAGES

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shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford) wrote:

>nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates) wrote:
>
>>Randy Shackelford <shack@onyx.southwind.net> wrote:
>>
>>>Also, there was a migration path offered to Apple II users in '90, namely
>>>the //e card.
>>
>>   Clue for those who are so brainwashed they can only try and defend
>>Apple at every step: the //e was NOT the pentultimate machine in the
>>Apple II line. Most of the power Apple II users had something more
>>powerful than a 128K //e at the time, and didn't want to downgrade.
>>
>>   Stop the insane excuses, there was no *GOOD* upgrade path from the
>>Apple II line to the Mac, and you know it. What pitiful excuses for an
>>upgrade Apple doled out do NOT cut it in the real world.
>
>>Having a //e card is a perfectly viable way to move from Apple II to
>>Mac.
>
>   Up until about August 1986, maybe. However, a //e in 1990 was far
>too little, far too late. You can remove your lips from the behind of
>Macintosh Computers, Inc anytime, you know, and your credibility will
>certainly go up.

But Nathan is totally correct!

The IIe card was about 6 years too late.  By that time, most A2 users
were either (1) already disgusted with Apple for leading them on and
moved to the PC (2) were led to believe that the GS was the upgrade
path Apple intended and moved to the GS or (3) felt that a slow and
128k Apple IIe was not enough and added 1MB to 5MB and a ZipChip
to run AppleWorks, GEOS, Publish-It!, etc., at a good speed.  Many
also had CP/M and WordStar or PC Transporter and dBASE.

IF the IIe card was introduced in 1984, when most IIes were non-
accelerated or only Transwarp accelerated and when the average
memory WAS 128k and there was NO Apple IIGS, then the card
would have made welcome sense.  Trying to get Apple II users to
DOWNGRADE to the IIe card in 1990 DOES NOT make sense.

Ok, there is a Quadra emulator for the Pentium Wintel called the
Gemulator.  It can emulate a Quadra faster than the fastest of the
old Quadras (3x40Mhz '040?).  Trying to justify the IIe card as an
upgrade path for the A2 in 1990 is like trying to justify Gemulator
as an upgrade path for Macs!  How would you like it if Apple stops
making Macintoshes and starts making Wintels?  Are they
abandoning the Mac?  In your reasoning, OF COURSE THEY ARE
NOT.  ;-)  They are supplying Gemulator, which they charge you
$150 to install in your new APPLE PENTIUM.  With Gemulator,
this Apple Pentium can run all your Quadra Mac software faster
than your real Quadra.  But wait a minute, you say, this is TOO
LITTLE, TOO LATE...Gemulator emulates a Mac that is 6 YEARS
OLD and completely abandons the PowerMac crowd.

BUT...in your reasoning...WHO CARES?  There's no good
PowerMac software.  Most PowerMac titles have Windows 95
counterparts.  Follow Apple's party line and buy an APPLE
PENTIUM & run your OLD Quadra software. Like POWERMAC
native software?  TOO BAD!  That's the take on a IIe card
introduced 6 years too late without Apple IIGS native software
support.