Re: What's to become of the Apple II?

["Charles P. Hobbs" <transit@primenet.com>]

Marvin wrote:
> 
> Charles P. Hobbs (transit@primenet.com) wrote:
> : ALL of these older 8-bit computers have their adherents, so they'll
> : never totally go away. I seriously doubt that Microsoft is
> : worried, though :-)
> 
> You forget the Apple II gs which is a 16-bit computer and a worthy heir
> to the 8-bit Apples. It could evolve into a dangerous competitor to
> Apple's Mac line, this is the reason why Apple throws so many legal
> rocks onto the path of the developers who still support it.
> 
I don't know . . .Mac's have now all gone to PowerPC chips (rather than
68XXX's), so I think your GS would still be dusted. (Heck, now I think
the 68030 and 68040 based Macs are too slow). Maybe in Easter Europe,
or the Third World, where folks don't have much money, these older
systems might still hold sway (They were still selling C-64's in
Easter Europe, etc. until 1994!)