Re: How do we get Mac vs Newton threads out of csa2?

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

Supertimer (supertimer@aol.com) wrote:
: Mac vs Newton threads seem to be running rampant on csa2.
: Either the Mac or the Newton folks keep cross-posting into
: csa2.  I wish they will stop doing this....

Well you could post into the same thread and set followups to not go to
the groups where you don't want 'em, then at least any followups to your
post don't go to those groups. That's assuming the stupidass AOL newsreader
lets you do things such as set followups of course.

: I can see why Newton owners are upset (Jobs killed the
: Newton...see, his ego again...he had nothing to do with this
: product, so he killed it)...but some of those who kowtow to
: Jobs and believe the Mac is the end all and be all of computer
: evolution have even uglier attitudes towards the A2 than the
: Newton.

FYI Apple is gonna have a Mac OS based replacement for the Newton, kinda
like those gadgets that runs Windows CE. Newton was a dud. I think the
majority of modern day Apple users see why Apple kills off unprofitable
or technologically sub par stuff, e.g. Quickdraw GX, Powertalk, Newton,
Copland, yada yada.

: So...please leave csa2 off the list.  We (I) do disagree with
: what they did to the Apple II series and the Newton as well,
: but am getting very tired of arguing to the legion of brick
: walls (SOME Mac users...I've been able to convince the
: majority that there was NO SANE A2 to Mac transition as
: there was between 68k Mac and PPC, but SOME stubbornly
: refuse to admit that Macintosh Inc can do ANY wrong)...

Lessee, I guess that there were ~two million Apple IIs made, in comparison
to 30 million or so Macs. So if the Mac was an upgrade to the II, then every
person who owned a II must have bought fifteen Macs in order for the numbers
to come out. I don't know about that. Now maybe two million LC's with //e
cards were sold. Lest you forget, that was intended to be the transition
from Apple II to Mac. I'd consider it sane.
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