Re: Apple II GS Question

[shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <5gpcph$1vaa@uni.library.ucla.edu>,
 <pubpc1@library.ucla.edu> wrote:

[snip]

>I agree.  I think the difference is that if you are actually going
>to USE your IIgs, as opposed to just playing with it, you'd need
>an accelerator.  Randy's philosophy seems to be that if he needed
>to type up something, he'd go to one of his souped up Macs.

You seem to have a real problem with the way I choose to use the computers
I happen to own. I bet you'd really freak if I told you what all I had in
boxes up in the attic for lack of space. There's a rule I follow when the
wintel drones give me crap for using Apple hardware - I use what I like to 
use and let everyone else do the same. Guess it's time to extend that to 
say use what you like for what you like and let everyone else do the same.

>The exception is AppleWorks Classic users.  The text screen runs
>fast even without an accelerator.  Incidentally, Macs lack text
>screens.  Strange...back in the Mac Plus days, a terminal on a Mac
>would slug along while Apple II, GS, and PC terminals zoomed past.

There's the magic word. Since I use mainly 8 bit software, never needed 
acceleration. IMO, there was precious little good native software, which
is one of the IIgs' problems. That and the fact that it ran pretty slowly
until system software 5.0 came out.
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Randy Shackelford                                 
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