Re: Apple sucks

[!smentzer@pacbell.net (Steve Mentzer)]

Try deperately, but ultimately failing to sound intelligent, Joe Kohn said...
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>>> When was the last time Apple came out with a insanely great product.
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>It's been almost 11 years; the Apple IIGS was introduced on September 15,
>1986.
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>Joe
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As nice as the Apple IIgs was (and still is), it still suffered the same 
nearsightedness that has plagued ACI from the inception of the Mac II.

The IIgs experiences a cool feature that also acts as a huge achilles heel. 
This feature is backwards compatibility. The IIgs bus speed runs at ~1Mhz and 
unfortunately, this is totally inadequate considering that video memory and the 
like run at that speed, regardless of how fast your accelerator card is. 

The ability for the IIgs to use existing apple II peripherals and software was 
a boon, but had it's price. This limited the expandability of the IIgs, and 
severely degraded it's performance potential.

The IIgs was a classic example of a great idea and superb technology stuck on a 
foundation made of slush. And for this reason, the apple IIgs will remain as a 
"could have been" in computer history, just like the amiga.

smentzer@pacbell.net