Re: More lies about GS Programming from Turkey

[spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article regnirps@aol.com (Regnirps) writes...

>You know, I can get all you folks a surplus Mac IIci from Boeing for $150 each
>with 20 meg of mem, 40 meg HD and a NuBus ethernet card and system 6.1 (boots
>in about 5 seconds), SCSI and all that. I'm using one to browse this
newsgroup.

    Or for the same price, you could get a much faster, expandable and
capable used 486DX4/120 box with all the frills (500 MB HD, 32 MB RAM,
sound board, SVGA video, modem, keyboard, mouse). It would be much more
bearable as a dedicated web browser for many reasons. Regardless, even
the above Macintosh setup is still a better solution than say Spectrum
Internet Suite running on even the nicest Apple IIgs system.

>So, just out of cusiosity, why are you clinging to the gs?

    Maybe you mean "why are you clinging ONLY to the gs?". There
is nothing wrong with owning and continuing to use an Apple IIgs,
in fact I still do myself. However, it makes a lot of sense these
days to own a semi-modern PC or Mac on the side for doing the things
that are not possible on the GS. Even in the best possible outcome,
the Apple IIgs will never have anything close to a full graphical
version of Netscape due to its limitations (and in the unlikely
event the Second Sight was used, it would take far too long to
render all the JPEG/GIF image data most web-pages use).

    Currently, the best way to use an Apple IIgs to get online is
with a text-only shell account (at least until PPP is supported,
along with applications to go on top of it).

>I have 4 //e boxes that are still usefull for quickly wire wrapped data
>aquisition cards and the gs is a nicer box, but I much prefer the //e with
>built in keyboard and an HD stuffed inside for the few jobs I still use it
for.

    Well, I'd still prefer the IIgs over the IIe. You can purchase
internal hardrives for it and it has a much smaller footprint than
the Apple IIe case (and the machine is many times more capable of).

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca